brew
About 1.12 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- verb To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- verb To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- verb To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- verb To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
- verb To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- verb To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- verb To boil or seethe; to cook.
Similar words
brewage steep infuse beverage ferment lager beer ale pint concoct
Often followed by
of and a in beer was the that is
Word family
brewed brewer brewers brewing brews
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