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stewsnounpl. of stew a state of nervous or irritated concernmany in town are in a stew about the proposed plan to close at least one of the elementary schools dithers, flusters, frets, fusses, huffs, lathers, pothers, sweats, swelters, swivets, tizzies, twitters bothers, dudgeons, piquesalarms(also alarums), hand-wringings, panicsados, agitations, deliriums, distractions, furors, hysterias, uproarsnervous breakdowns a state of noisy, confused activitythe audience went into a stew when the evacuation order was announced ados, alarums and excursions, ballyhoos, blathers, bluster, bobberies, bothers, bustles, clatters, clutters(chiefly dialect), coils, commotions, corroborees(Australian), disturbances, dos(or do's, chiefly dialect), foofaraws, fun, furores, furors, fusses, helter-skelters, hoo-has(also hoo-hahs), hooplas, hubble-bubbles, hubbubs, hullabaloos, hurlies, hurly-burlies, hurricanes, hurry-scurries(or hurry-skurries), kerfuffles(chiefly British), moils, pandemoniums, pothers, rows, ruckuses, ructions, rumpuses, shindys(or shindies), splores(Scottish), squalls, stirs, storms, to-dos, tumults, turmoils, uproars, welters, whirls, williwaws, zoos cacophonies, clamors, dins, howls, hue and cries, noises, outcries, rackets, roarsdisorders, upheavalseruptions, flare-ups, flurries, flutters, outbreaks, outburstsbrawls, fracases(or British fracas), frays, hassles, melees(also mêlées), scufflesdithers, fevers, frets, lathers, tizzies calms, hushes, peaces, quiets, quietudes, rests, tranquillities(or tranquilities)orders an unorganized collection or mixture of various thingsthe documentary looks at the stew of conspiracy theories inspired by the assassination agglomerates, agglomerations, alphabet soups, assortments, botches, clutters, collages, crazy quilts, farragoes, gallimaufries, grab bags, gumbos, hashes, hodgepodges, hotchpotches, jambalayas, jumbles, jungles, litters, macédoines, medleys, mélanges, menageries, miscellanea, miscellanies, mishmashes, mixed bags, montages, motleys, muddles, olios, olla podridas(also ollas podridas), omnium-gatherums, pastiches, patchwork quilts, patchworks, potpourris, ragbags, ragouts, rummages, salads, salmagundis, scrambles, shuffles, smorgasbords, tumbles, varieties, welters detritus, notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundriesaccumulations, aggregates, aggregations, conglomerates, conglomerationscatchallsadmixtures, alloys, amalgams, blends, combinations, commixtures, composites, compounds, fusions, intermixtures, mix-upsbollixes, chaoses, confusions, disarrangements, disarrays, disorders, dog's breakfasts(chiefly British), messes, morasses, muddles, shamblesimbroglios, knots, snarls, tangles a building in which prostitutes are availablea red-light district full of down and dirty stews stewsverbpresent tense third-person singular of stewto cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steamstew the chicken till tender, and then remove the meat from the bones to experience concern or anxietystop stewing over that game and just try to do better next time bothers, fears, frets, fusses, stresses, sweats, troubles, worries agonizeslongs, pines, yearnschafesdespairs gives a hang(or cares a hang), sweats blood acceptsabides, bears, endures, sticks out, stomachs, sustains, takes, tolerates |