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brew

Pronunciation: /bɹuː/

The English word “brew” has 13 meanings listed here.

verb

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

noun

  1. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
  2. A serving of beer.
  3. A cup of tea.
  4. A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
  5. An overhanging hill or cliff.

Etymology

From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit…

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