brew

CEFRC1

/bɹuː/

verb

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  1. 01

    verb

    To make a drink by soaking or boiling ingredients.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.

Examples

  • When you travel, you've got to try the local brew.

  • The local brew is excellent.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /bɹɪʊ̯/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

  2. To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

  3. To foment or prepare, as by brewing.

More examples

In context

  • Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

  • Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]

  • Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.

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Origin

verb

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.