brew

Meanings

Verb

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

Noun

• The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
• An overhanging hill or cliff.

Origin

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