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The definition of brew means to make something to drink by mixing parts together, boiling and steeping, or making a plan.
(verb)- An example of to brew is making homemade beer.
- An example of to brew is making coffee in a French press.
- An example of to brew is plotting to free the animals at a zoo.
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See brew in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
- to make (beer, ale, etc.) from malt and hops by steeping, boiling, and fermenting
- to make (tea, coffee, etc.) by steeping or boiling
- to plan (mischief, trouble, etc.); plot; scheme
Origin: ME breuen < OE breowan: see bread
intransitive verb
- to brew beer, ale, etc.
- to begin to form: said of a storm, trouble, etc.
noun
- a beverage that has been brewed
- an amount brewed
- the brewing process
- ☆ Informal a drink of beer
Related Forms:
- brewer noun
See brew in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb brewed, brew·ing, brews verb, transitive
- To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
- To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients: brew tea.
- To concoct; devise: brew a plot to overthrow the government.
- To make ale or beer as an occupation.
- To be made by boiling or steeping: As the coffee brewed, I paced in the kitchen.
- To be imminent; impend: “storms brewing on every frontier” (John Dos Passos).
- a. A beverage made by brewing.b. A serving of such a beverage.
- Something produced as if by brewing; a mix: Their politics were a strange brew of idealism and self-interest.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English brewen
Origin: , from Old English brēowan; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots
.Related Forms:
- brewˈage noun
- brewˈer noun
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