brew

brew is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To boil or seethe; to cook. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To boil or seethe; to cook.
2. transitive verb. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
3. transitive verb. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
4. transitive verb. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
5. intransitive verb. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
6. intransitive verb. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
7. noun. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
8. noun. drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling

   Synonyms: brewage

9. verb. sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor

   "the tea is brewing"

10. verb. prepare by brewing

    "people have been brewing beer for thousands of years"

Synonyms

brewage

Common word forms

brews, brewed, brewer, brewing

Words from these letters

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