brew

Meaning

1. To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
2. To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
3. To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
4. To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
5. To foment or prepare, as by brewing
6. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
7. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
8. (obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

brew

ferment

infuse

boil

distill

prepare

breed

foment

brewing

forecast

foresee

foretell

predict

make

brewage

cook

potion

cause

give rise to

develop

form

start

incubate

make coffee

originate

beverage

drink

liquor

emulsion

mash

mix

paste

poultice

become ripe

pound

concoct

get ready

make ready

prime

ale

beer

brew beer

decoction

mixture

braise

poach

stew

bang

deposit

eff

excommunication

fix

fuck

hump

lay

lodge

put

repose

screw

set

stick

wedge

distil

steep

infusion

concoction

elixir

tonic

compass

contrive

engineer

mediate

plan

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹuː/

From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley