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Definition: Stewing |
StewingNoun1. An extreme state of worry and agitation; "his stewing over the fight kept him awake most of the night". 2. Cooking in a boiling liquid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stewing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Metallurgy | Operation consisting in keeping a metal bath in a furnace at a given temperature to secure a given result. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: StewingSynonyms: boiling (n), simmering (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stewing |
| English words defined with "stewing": beef goulash, boiler ♦ hen ♦ kettle ♦ saucepan, saucepot, stew, stew meat, stewing pan, stewpan, Stewpot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stewing": Stewing in their own Gravy. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He got through by stewing, pure stewing. |
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| "Stewing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stewing" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stewing": stewing pan ♦ stewing steak. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beef recipe stewing | 3 |
beef stewing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stewing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който става за компот. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 羹汤 (stewed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | varmholdning (holding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sudderen (hold), warmhouden (hold, holding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seisottaminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mijotage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schmorend (braising), dämpfend (muting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σιγοβράσιμο μπάνιου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | serpenyő (boiler, frying pan, pan, skillet, spider, stewing-pan, stew-pan, tray, trough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rimescolamento (agitation, removal, rousing, stirring, stirring up, whipping, working). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 煮物 (food cooked by boiling or stewing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にもの (food cooked by boiling or stewing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "임. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewingstay banho-maria. (various references) тушить тушение. (various references) mantenimiento (alimentation, alimony, maintenance, sustenance, upkeep). (various references) rening genom varmhållning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Stewing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scewing, schwing, Setswana, shewyng, srewing, ssewing, steding, steig, steling, stering, stwig. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stewing" (pronounced stuw"ing) |
| 4 | -t uw" i ng | tattooing. |
| 3 | -uw" i ng | accruing, bluing, booing, brewing, canoeing, chewing, cooing, debuting, Dewing, doing, eschewing, hewing, overdoing, pursuing, queuing, redoing, renewing, reviewing, screwing, skewing, spewing, subduing, suing, undoing, viewing, wooing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: twinges, westing. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: ingest, sewing, signet, swinge, tewing, tinges, twines, twinge, wisent. | |
-2 letters: gents, inset, neist, newts, nites, segni, sengi, senti, sinew, singe, stein, sting, swine, swing, tines, tinge, tings, twigs, twine, twins, wines, wings, wites. | |
-3 letters: egis, engs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, nest, nets, news, newt, nite, nits, sent, sewn. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: strewing, sweating, sweeting, weltings, westings, wettings, wingiest, winglets, wresting. | |
+2 letters: bestowing, bitewings, sweetings, swingiest, towelings, twangiest, unweights, waterings, westering, wrestling. | |
+3 letters: bestrewing, bestrowing, enswathing, entwisting, knowingest, lengthwise, retwisting, songwriter, stewarding, sweetening, sweltering, swithering, towellings, wadsetting, weeknights, whitenings, whitewings, willingest, witnessing, wrestlings. | |
+4 letters: growthiness, networkings, newswriting, outswearing, postweaning, prewritings, songwriters, springwater, sweetenings, swingingest, swingletree, waitressing, waterskiing, weatherings, weightiness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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