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Definition of stewing
stew
verb - intransitive
- to focus at length on a negative subject or emotion.
Citation from "Dumped, But Not Down", Psychology Today, Carlin Flora, July 01 2007 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Bed & Breakfast", Bob's Burgers (TV), Season 1 Episode 7 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out.
Last edited on Oct 13 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 14 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to become angry, go crazy, freak out': | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent, impressive; "cool"; "awesome". | |
| Definitions include: to lose one's temper. | |
| Definitions include: to act in a crazy manner towards someone - e.g. yelling, beating. | |
| Definitions include: an exclamation of surprise or disappointment; "damn"; "darn"; "shit". | |
| Definitions include: anxiety experienced before making a phone call, especially to a member of the opposite sex. | |
| Definitions include: to become enraged, lose one's temper; "freak out". | |
| Definitions include: to make a U-turn. | |
| Definitions include: to laugh hysterically. | |
| Definitions include: to make a person angry. | |
| Definitions include: Couldn't believe it, or make a big deal. | |
| Definitions include: to react with extreme emotion; freak out. | |
| Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.) | |
| Definitions include: to go on a murderous rampage after having society's pressure build on you. | |
| Definitions include: become enraged; "freak out". | |
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| Definitions include: drunk. | |
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