Pronunciations (4)
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/bɹuː/
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[bɹuʊ̯]
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/bɹɪʊ̯/
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bɹuː
Verb
To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
Usage- Intransitive
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Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
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Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
Usage- Intransitive
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To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
Usage- Intransitive
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To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
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Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]
To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
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I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]
To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
Usage- Intransitive
- of an unwelcome event
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There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
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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.
To boil or seethe; to cook.
Usage- Obsolete
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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.'
Noun
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
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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.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. A serving of beer.
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Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. A cup of tea.
Usage- UK usage
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Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.
A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
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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.
Noun
An overhanging hill or cliff.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
Noun
drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
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Verb
prepare by brewing
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people have been brewing beer for thousands of years
sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
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the tea is brewing