The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STEWED
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More clues leading to the result STEWED
- Horse eating tip of yew was in agony
- Without source of water, horse got very hot
- Hurdling Wincanton's first, horse felt uneasy
- Braised and well-oiled
- Drunk was irritated
- Boiled or oiled?
- Primarily Shaun the Sheep dead drunk
- S, as it may be, died, as it may be
- Wife tucks into horse, fricasséed
- Worried good person married, embracing sweetheart
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What does STEWED mean?
STEWED verb- To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
- To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
- To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
- To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
- Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering. See stew.
- Intoxicated by an excess of alcohol.
- (Of tea) Bitter from having been steeped too long.