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# stew

«stew» in Mova's school dictionary: **A meal of meat or vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (stew, stews); verb (stew, stews, stewed, stewing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A meal of meat or vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a pot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#m1)

2) To cook food slowly in liquid: "stewed apples". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#m2)

3) Informally, "in a stew" means worried and upset; to "stew" means to keep worrying about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life stews are a warm winter meal, like Irish stew or beef stew. In cooking lessons, pupils learn that stewing makes tough meat soft. In stories, someone "left to stew" is left to think about what they did. Phrases: beef stew, Irish stew, stewed fruit, in a stew, let someone stew.

### examples

- We had beef stew for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#x1)
- Irish stew is made with lamb and potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#x2)
- Grandma stewed some apples for the crumble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#x3)
- The stew cooked slowly for three hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#x4)
- Stop stewing about the test and go to bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#x5)
- She was in a real stew about losing her keys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#x6)
- The Fowler with great joy ran home to his wife, who speedily made a savoury stew of the Yellow Bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/#x7)

### note

Usually uncountable for the food ("some stew"), countable for kinds ("two stews"). Regular verb: stew, stewed. In cooking maths: if a stew for 4 people needs 400 grams of meat, a stew for 8 people needs 800 grams.

### In the corpora

- [Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/6/)
- [Toad bargains for six shillings and sixpence and as much stew as he can eat, and gets it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stew» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stew/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.