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brew - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
- intransitive verb To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients.
- intransitive verb To concoct; devise.
- intransitive verb To make ale or beer as an occupation.
- intransitive verb To be made by boiling or steeping.
- intransitive verb To be imminent; impend.
- noun A beverage made by brewing.
- noun A serving of such a beverage.
- noun Something produced as if by brewing; a mix.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete form of
bree (which see). - 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.
- noun The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
- transitive verb obsolete To boil or seethe; to cook.
- transitive verb To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
- transitive verb To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
- transitive verb To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch.
- intransitive verb To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- intransitive verb To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
prepare (usually abeverage ) bysteeping andmingling ; toconcoct . - verb transitive To
foment or prepare, as by brewing; tocontrive ; toplot ; 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, orgathering . - verb transitive, obsolete To
boil orseethe ; tocook . - noun The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a
brewage . - noun slang A
beer . - noun UK, New Zealand A cup of tea.
- noun UK, New Zealand The act of making a cup of tea.
- noun UK, informal A hill.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
- noun drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
- verb prepare by brewing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwanan, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreuh₁-, *bʰreh₁u- (compare Welsh berw ‘boiling’, Latin fervēre, Albanian mbruaj ("to knead"), Russian brujá ‘current’, Sanskrit bhurván ‘motion of water’).
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Examples
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For mere pennies per pint, homemade brew is the new hobby de jour to save on the alcohol bill, and have more fun than a Corona can ever offer.
Kari Henley: Budgeting Tips: De-Stress and Live With Less Kari Henley 2010
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For mere pennies per pint, homemade brew is the new hobby de jour to save on the alcohol bill, and have more fun than a Corona can ever offer.
Kari Henley: Budgeting Tips: De-Stress and Live With Less Kari Henley 2010
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The Dawg, at least, awaits your arrival with anticipated pleasure and I must say you should love it here so if I´m in town (that would be Lake Chapala) the first brew is on me but the same goes for Highland Chiapas if I happen to be there at the time.
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The brew is very full bodied and satisfying, though some find the small amount of sediment and oils off-putting.
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The Dawg, at least, awaits your arrival with anticipated pleasure and I must say you should love it here so if I´m in town (that would be Lake Chapala) the first brew is on me but the same goes for Highland Chiapas if I happen to be there at the time.
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With a name that Wisconsin brew made famous, Dick Leinenkugel could shake up a Republican primary for U.S.
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The surprise ending of this ad — Cedric accidentally sprays his date with brew from a shaken Bud Light — ignited his career.
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The Dawg, at least, awaits your arrival with anticipated pleasure and I must say you should love it here so if I´m in town (that would be Lake Chapala) the first brew is on me but the same goes for Highland Chiapas if I happen to be there at the time.
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The Dawg, at least, awaits your arrival with anticipated pleasure and I must say you should love it here so if I´m in town (that would be Lake Chapala) the first brew is on me but the same goes for Highland Chiapas if I happen to be there at the time.
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The brew is very full bodied and satisfying, though some find the small amount of sediment and oils off-putting.
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Words with the same meaning
- John Barleycorn
- Pilsner
- alcohol
- alcoholic beverage
- alcoholic drink
- ale
- angle
- approach
- aqua vitae
- ardent spirits
- await
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- bathe
- be imminent
- be in store
- beer
- begin
- besprinkle
- beverage
- bitters
- blanch
- blast
- blossom
- blow
- blow a hurricane
- blow great guns
- blow over
- blow up
- bluster
- bock beer
- boil
- bootleg
- booze
- braise
- breathe
- breeze
- breeze up
- bring about
- broil
- brown
- burgeon
- cabal
- cause
- coddle
- collude
- color
- combination
- come on
- come up
- complot
- compose
- composition
- compound
- concoct
- concoction
- confection
- confront
- connive
- conspire
- contrive
- cook
- cook up
- countermine
- counterplot
- curry
- decoct
- decoction
- decoctum
- develop
- devil
- devise
- distill
- do
- do to perfection
- douche
- draw near
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- draw on
- dredge
- drench
- drink
- drouk
- dye
- engineer
- entincture
- face
- ferment
- finagle
- finesse
- fire
- fix up
- flavor
- flourish
- flush
- form
- forthcome
- frame
- frame up
- freshen
- fricassee
- frizz
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- fry
- gather
- germinate
- get up
- go on
- griddle
- grill
- grog
- grow
- grow up
- half-and-half
- hang over
- hard liquor
- hash
- hatch
- hatch a plot
- hatch up
- heat
- hodgepodge
- hover
- huff
- hypertrophy
- imbrue
- imbue
- impend
- impregnate
- increase
- inebriant
- infiltrate
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- inject
- instill
- intoxicant
- intoxicating liquor
- intrigue
- jumble
- lager beer
- lave
- lay a plot
- leach
- leaven
- lie over
- light beer
- liquor
- little brown jug
- lixiviate
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- lower
- macerate
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- make
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- malt liquor
- maneuver
- mature
- mead
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- mix
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- moonlight
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- mushroom
- near
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- overhang
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- pan
- pan-broil
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- pastiche
- penetrate
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- plan
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- rage
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- rum
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- social lubricant
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- souse
- spirits
- spring up
- sprout
- sprout up
- squall
- start
- steam
- steep
- stew
- stir-fry
- storm
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- strong drink
- strong waters
- suffuse
- tea
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- the Demon Rum
- the bottle
- the cup
- the flowing bowl
- the luscious liquor
- the ruddy cup
- threaten
- thrive
- tincture
- tinge
- toast
- tower
- toxicant
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- upshoot
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- upspring
- upsprout
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Words with the same terminal sound
- Baku
- Blue
- Cebu
- Chengdu
- Chou
- Chu
- Crewe
- Drew
- Ewe
- Few
- Fu
- Hu
- Hue
- Hugh
- Jammu
- Jew
- Kalamazoo
- Kew
- Koo
- Kwangju
- Lemieux
- Lou
- Lu
- M2
- Mew
- Mu
- New
- Nu
- Peru
- Pooh
- Pru
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- Q
- Que
- Ru
- Sioux
- Stew
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- Su
- Sue
- Timbuktu
- Tsu
- Tu
- Tue
- U
- Urdu
- Wenzhou
- Wu
- Yue
- Zhou
- accrue
- adieu
- ado
- anew
- askew
- babu
- ballyhoo
- bamboo
- bleu
- blew
- blue
- boo
- brue
- canoe
- chew
- choo
- chou
- clue
- construe
- coo
- coup
- coups
- crew
- cue
- debut
- dew
- do
- doo
- drew
- drive-thru
- due
- ensue
- eschew
- ewe
- few
- flew
- flu
- flue
- fondue
- foo
- fu
- glew
- glue
- gnu
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- gu
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- hew
- hewe
- hitherto
- hoo
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- hullabaloo
- imbue
- into
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- jus
- kangaroo
- katmandu
- kazoo
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- kyu
- leu
- lew
- lieu
- loo
- lue
- m2
- mew
- misconstrue
- moo
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- neveu
- new
- nu
- ooh
- oooh
- ou
- outdo
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- overdo
- overdue
- overthrew
- perdue
- pew
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- poo
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- q
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- renew
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- screw
- shampoo
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- shoe
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- skew
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- soo
- spew
- stew
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- subdue
- sue
- taboo
- tattoo
- tatu
- tew
- thankyou
- thew
- threw
- through
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- two
- u
- undo
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- view
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- wahoo
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- withdrew
- woo
- wu
- xu
- yew
- you
- yu
- yue
- zoo
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