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.

ferment

infuse

make coffee

brew beer

make ready

become ripe

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