Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To boil or seethe; to cook.
- 2transitive verb
To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
- 3transitive verb
To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
- 4transitive verb
To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
- 5intransitive verb
To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- 6intransitive verb
To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
- 7noun
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
- 8noun
drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
Synonyms
- 9verb
sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
"the tea is brewing"
- 10verb
prepare by brewing
"people have been brewing beer for thousands of years"
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