Brew

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
  • v. To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients: brew tea.
  • v. To concoct; devise: brew a plot to overthrow the government.
  • verb-intransitive. To make ale or beer as an occupation.
  • verb-intransitive. To be made by boiling or steeping: As the coffee brewed, I paced in the kitchen.
  • verb-intransitive. To be imminent; impend: "storms brewing on every frontier” ( John Dos Passos).
  • n. A beverage made by brewing.
  • n. A serving of such a beverage.
  • n. Something produced as if by brewing; a mix: Their politics were a strange brew of idealism and self-interest.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
  • v. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.
  • v. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  • v. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
  • v. To boil or seethe; to cook.
  • n. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.
  • n. A beer.
  • n. A cup of tea.
  • n. The act of making a cup of tea.
  • n. A hill.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To boil or seethe; to cook.
  • v. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
  • v. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
  • v. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch.
  • verb-intransitive. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  • verb-intransitive. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
  • n. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To produce as a beverage by fermentation; prepare (beer, ale, or other similar liquor) from malt, or from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
  • To prepare by mixing, boiling, or the like; mingle; mix; concoct: as, to brew a bowl of punch; “drinks brewed with several herbs,”
  • To contrive; plot; prepare: as, to brew mischief.
  • To conduct the operations or the business of brewing or making beer.
  • To be in a state of preparation; be mixing, forming, or collecting; be impending: chiefly in the present participle: as, a storm is brewing in the west.
  • n. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
  • n. Obsolete form of bree (which see).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
  • n. drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
  • v. prepare by brewing
  • Verb Form
    brewed    brewing    brews   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    brewage    brewer    brewhouse   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    concoct    contrive    plot    hatch    devise   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku    Blue    Cebu    Chengdu    Chou    Chu    Crewe    Drew    Ewe    Few   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    potion    ale    concoction    cider    beer    beverage    stew    liquor    aroma    fume