brewed

Verb

brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
   • Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]1935, Christopher Isherwood, chapter 11, in Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, published 1942, page 113
2. (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
   • Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (intransitive, transitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
5. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
   • Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...

   Synonyms:

   contrive, plot, hatch

6. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
   • I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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