brew

English

/bɹuː/

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

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English brewen inherited from Old English brēowan (brew) inherited from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną (brew) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (boil, brew, seethe, be hot, boil up, sprout, ferment, roil), *bʰrewh₁- (boil, brew, seethe, be hot, boil up, sprout, ferment, roil).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰrewh₁-

Gloss

boil, brew, seethe, be hot, boil up, sprout, ferment, roil

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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