stewed

comparative more stewed · superlative most stewed

1. Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
2. Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
3. slangDrunk.

   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.

   1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58

   Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of stew