Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]

Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

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

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

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.

Grant may have considered that only a performance of the very highest quality could keep him in a job - and the way his players started the game gave the 55-year-old shelter from the storm that was brewing.

She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'

Word Forms

• brews
• brewing
• brewed

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