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stewed

(sto͞od, styo͞od)

adj.

1. Cooked by stewing: stewed prunes.

2. Informal Intoxicated; drunk.

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stewed

(stjuːd)

adj

1. (Cookery) (of meat, fruit, etc) cooked by stewing

2. (Cookery) Brit (of tea) having a bitter taste through having been left to infuse for too long

3. a slang word for drunk¹

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stewed

(stud, styud)

adj.

Slang. intoxicated; drunk.

[1915–20]

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Adj.

stewed - cooked in hot water

boiled, poached

cooked - having been prepared for eating by the application of heat

stewed

adjective

Informal. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:

besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy.

Informal: cockeyed.

Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked.

Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.

Translations

stewed

[ˈstjuːd] adj

stewed fruit → fruits cuits, fruits en compote

stewed tea → thé trop infuséstewing steak (British) n → bœuf m à braiserstew meat (US) n → bœuf m à braiser

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Fill with stewed dried apples; aggravate with cloves, lemon-peel, and slabs of citron; add two portions of New Orleans sugars, then solder on the lid and set in a safe place till it petrifies.

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But brooding lay the sun of my love upon me, in his own juice stewed Zarathustra,--then did shadows and doubts fly past me.

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"Not unless they're stewed and made into pies," answered the boy, laughing.

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It was a bountiful meal--there were baked beans and mashed potatoes and asparagus chopped and stewed, and a dish of strawberries, and great, thick slices of bread, and a pitcher of milk.