brew
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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 भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley.
Inflected forms:
form: brews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brewed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: brews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
gloss: To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
gloss: To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]
gloss: To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]
gloss: To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To boil or seethe; to cook.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.'
gloss: The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill
gloss: The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew?
Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.
gloss: A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
pos: noun
examples: In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.
Derived words: abrew
as you have brewed, so you must drink
brewable
brewage
brewer
brewery
brewhouse
brew up
hell-brewed
homebrewed
microbrewed
misbrew
nanobrew
nonbrewed
overbrew
rebrew
unbrewed
underbrew
brewfest
brew-in
brewmaster
brewology
brewpub
brewsky
brewster
broth
builder's brew
cold brew
cold brew coffee
craft brew
hellbrew
homebrew
iron brew
macrobrew
megabrew
microbrew
on the brew
witches' brew
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 釀製飲料 /酿制饮料
roman: niàngzhì yǐnliào
lang: Dutch
word: brouwsel
lang: Finnish
word: mallasjuoma
lang: Finnish
word: keitos
lang: French
word: breuvage
lang: German
word: Bräu
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Brie
lang: Portuguese
word: infusão
lang: Russian
word: ва́рево
roman: várevo
lang: Spanish
word: destilado
lang: Swedish
word: brygd