as in fretting
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1
as in boiling
to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam
stew the chicken till tender, and then remove the meat from the bones
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2
as in worrying
to experience concern or anxiety
stop stewing over that game and just try to do better next time
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Verb
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Overweight and obesity need to be treated safely and effectively to avoid that worrying forecast.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Dec. 2024 -
Bitcoin has dropping back from its all-time high of over $100,000 in the last week as BlackRock quietly confirmed a worrying bitcoin bombshell.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Long wait times became a self-fulfilling prophecy In recent weeks, news of the turmoil at Social Security mobilized fretful Americans to telephone or visit the agency, seeding further chaos.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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At the very least, Washington sought to assure the fretful Parsons that all was not yet lost.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
Verb
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What emerged was a picture of active resistance, simmering anger and readiness for battle, if and when the time comes.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
5 Jan. 2025
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Continue simmering for about three minutes.—
Michiko Tomioka, Contributor,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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One of the film’s vexed visual motifs is a mirroring of the encampments at Columbia and the refugee tent cities in Palestine.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
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To focus one’s attention on the bare minimum that the laws of war require in extremis is a way to avoid the vexed moral and political problems of the past wars, which America is very much still fighting.—
Colin Jones,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Stewing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stewing. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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