brew
IPA: brˈu
noun
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- (slang) A serving of beer.
- (Britain, slang) A cup of tea.
- (Britain, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
- (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
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Examples of "brew" in Sentences
- The beer was originally brewed.
- The beer is brewed on meltwater from icecaps.
- The color of the tea brewed is orange and red.
- A coffee brewing device is the percolator type.
- My mom was trying to find a kettle to brew a tea.
- A coffee percolator is a type of pot used to brew coffee.
- Once again, there's a tempest brewing in the national tea pot.
- Coffee percolators and automatic coffeemakers brew coffee using gravity.
- It is unlike a percolator in that the brewed coffee is not re circulated.
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