stewed
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stewed
- /stuːd/
Rhymes with -uːd
Where it comes from
From stew + -ed.
adjective more stewed · most stewed
- Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
- Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
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Drunk.
Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything.
Similar: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten
verb
- simple past and past participle of stew
Talk about this word "stewed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/stewed. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. stewed. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/stewed "stewed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/stewed.Cite this
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