stew1
  
  n.
   - a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.
- informal a state of anxiety or agitation.
- archaic a public room used for hot steam baths. ▸a brothel. 
v.
  - cook or be cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan. ▸Brit. (of tea) become strong and bitter with prolonged brewing. 
- informal remain in a heated or stifling atmosphere. ▸remain in an anxious or agitated state. 
Phrase
  
    
      - stew in one's own juice
 informal be left to suffer the consequences of one's own actions.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. estuve (rel. to estuver ‘heat in steam’), prob. based on Gk tuphos ‘smoke, steam’.
 
  
    
stew2
  
  n.
 Brit.  - a pond or large tank for keeping fish for eating.
- an artificial oyster bed.
Etymology
  ME: from OFr. estui, from estoier ‘confine’.
 
  
    
stew3
  
  n.
 N. Amer. informal an air steward or stewardess.
Etymology
  1970s: abbrev.