Synonyms of the word

stew

• n. (obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
• n. (now historical) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
• n. (archaic) A brothel.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.
• n. (uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing.
• n. (Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
• n. (US, regional) An artificial bed of oysters.
• n. (slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
• v. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
• v. (transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
• n. A steward or stewardess on an airplane.

agitation

• n. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with…
• n. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical…
• n. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
• n. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest…

brood

• n. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same…
• n. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
• n. The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together…
• n. The children in one family.
• n. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
• n. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
• v. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
• v. (transitive) To protect.
• v. (intransitive) To dwell upon moodily and at length (with adpositions generally being either about or over).

cook

• n. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
• n. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
• n. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• n. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• n. A fish, the European striped wrasse.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
• v. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other…
• v. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost…
• v. To concoct or prepare.
• v. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way…
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
• v. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

dish

• n. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
• n. The contents of such a vessel.
• n. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
• n. (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed…
• n. A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish, radar dish.
• n. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
• n. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
• n. A hollow place, as in a field.
• n. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
• n. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
• n. (slang) Gossip.
• v. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
• v. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
• v. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
• v. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

fret

• v. (transitive, obsolete/poetic) To devour, consume; eat.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To gnaw, consume, eat away.
• v. (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
• v. (transitive) To cut through with fretsaw, create fretwork.
• v. (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
• v. (intransitive) To worry or be anxious.
• v. To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
• v. To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple.
• v. To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle.
• v. (music) To press down the string behind a fret.
• n. The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
• n. Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
• n. Herpes; tetter.
• n. (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate…
• n. (music) One of the pieces of metal/wood/plastic across the neck of a guitar or other musical instrument…
• n. An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief).
• n. (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
• v. To ornament with raised work; tovariegate; to diversify.
• n. A strait; channel.
• n. (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea or coming inland from the sea.

grizzle

• n. A dark grey colour.
• n. Grey hair.
• n. A grey wig.
• adj. Of a grey colour.
• v. To make or become grey, as with age.
• v. to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child.
• v. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To whinge or whine.
• v. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fuss or cry.

grudge

• n. (countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone, especially…
• v. To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
• v. (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
• v. (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
• v. (obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.

lather

• n. The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
• n. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
• n. A state of agitation.
• v. (transitive) To cover with lather.
• v. (transitive) To beat or whip.
• v. (intransitive) To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.

pout

• v. (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
• v. (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
• v. (transitive) To say while pouting.
• n. One's facial expression when pouting.
• n. A fit of sulking or sullenness.
• n. (rare) Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead),…
• n. Alternative form of poult.
• v. (Scotland) To shoot poults.

resent

• v. To express displeasure or indignation at.
• v. To feel resentment.
• v. (obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
• v. (obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
• v. (obsolete) In a negative sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
• v. (obsolete) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent,…
• v. (obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of resend.

sulk

• n. a state of sulking.
• v. (intransitive) to express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.
• n. A furrow.

sweat

• n. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature…
• n. (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
• n. (historical) The sweating sickness.
• n. Moisture issuing from any substance.
• n. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
• v. (intransitive) To emit sweat.
• v. (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
• v. (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To worry.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something).
• v. (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit moisture.
• v. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
• v. (transitive, slang) To stress out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that…

swither

• v. (Scots and dialects) To be indecisive or in a state of confusion; to dither.