Brew

Quick meaning: Brew is a verb meaning (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

Meaning

(transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
4. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
5. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
6. (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

Example Sentences

Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]

I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]

Word Forms

• brews
• brewing
• brewed

Synonyms for brew

Depending on context, synonyms include contrive, plot, hatch, infuse, steep, brewage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brewage, steep, infuse, beverage, ferment, lager.

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