One way to hold stewed is a lid, a low flame, and time. Something has been sitting in hot liquid far longer than a quick cooking would need, and the long wet heat has changed it all the way through: it has gone soft, loose and dark. That is the whole picture, and every use of the word is a version of it. Keep the heat on the right amount of time and you get supper. Leave it on too long and you get a pot of bitter tea. Put a person in the picture and you get the old joke: someone who has soaked so long that he has gone soft too.
From the word’s history
The word is simply stew plus -ed, so it is the past participle of the cooking verb used as a description. Everything the adjective does is the cooking verb, seen after the fact.
這個字就是 stew 加上 -ed，也就是把「燉」這個動作的完成式拿來當形容詞用。所以形容詞的每個用法，其實都是「已經被燉過」這件事的結果。
Wiktionary, "stewed"
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
stewedadj/stuːd/
- 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.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。