1[transitiveT]DFCCOOK to cook something slowly in liquid 炖,煨,焖
stewed apples
炖苹果
2let somebody stewinformal (also let somebody stew in their own juice) to leave someone to suffer the unpleasantresults of their own actions instead of helping them 让某人自作自受
Let him stew – I'm not going to help him.
就让他自作自受——我才不会去帮他呢。
Examples from the Corpus
stew• Younger hares take well to marinating and roastingrare; older ones need to be braised or stewed.• She could stew in her own juice.• Of course, Kate could have shrugged and let him stew in his own juice, or lack of it.• The air inside was rank with the fishy oils of stewingporpoise.• Had they stewed up a supper of some giantarachnid for Tundrish?
Originstew1
(1300-1400)Old Frenchestuve“cooking pot, heated room”, from Vulgar Latinextufa; → STOVE1