Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
stew .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an extreme state of worry and agitation
- noun cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
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Examples
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Here is the headline ‘Cruel’ FOX cartoon has Palin stewing.
Think Progress » Texas State Climatologist disputes his own state’s climate-denier petition. 2010
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The long, slow cooking at a temperature lower than boiling point, which is known as stewing or simmering, should be applied.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
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Had you been walking by this or driving by it for some time and it had been kind of stewing in you and you finally said, you know what, I'm sick and tired of it, I'm going to do something about it?
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Methods of cooking usually applied to oysters, such as stewing and boiling, may not destroy all bacteria.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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On this particular evening, Trix was practising scales on the piano in the drawing-room, while Mollie read a novel, and Betty lolled on the rug; the three boys were busy at lessons, or, as they eloquently described it, "stewing," round the dining-room table.
The Fortunes of the Farrells George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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Book said he had been "stewing" over the decision for some time.
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Book said he had been "stewing" over the decision for some time.
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a poetaster "stewing" his brains with a poem of this description, which of course demanded a certain amount of tedious and minute attention to the arrangement of the name of the individual to whom the anagram or acrostic was to be addressed, and this was especially the case, where the writer contemplated
The Lucasta Poems Richard Lovelace 1637
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But on everything else, the rear-guardians of conventional wisdom were wrong and they must now sit quietly, stewing in their wrongness.
The Fuel-Sipping Prius Gets a Bigger Brother Dan Neil 2011
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I am ashamed to admit that I spent the majority of that time stewing in envy.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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