Sekirov Dictionary

brew

/bɹuː/

verb 8
noun 5
forms 5
phrases 1

verb8

To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
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To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […] — 1597
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To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
- Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […] — 1634
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To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, — 1596
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To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […] — 1935
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To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. — 1597
To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
(no longer used) To boil or seethe; to cook.

noun5

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The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth. — 1959
A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
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(slang) A serving of beer.
- Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill — 1995
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(UK, slang) A cup of tea.
- Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on. — 2007
(dialect, UK) An overhanging hill or cliff.

forms

brewed · brewing · breweth · brews · brewest

Phrases with brew

brew up
To make (a liquid, especially tea, coffee, or beer) by brewing.

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