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Past tense of brew

regular verb

The past tense of brew is brewed. The past participle is also brewed.

Forms of brew

Base form (V1)brew /bɹuː/
Past tense (V2)brewed /bɹuːd/
Past participle (V3)brewed /bɹuːd/
Present participlebrewing /ˈbɹuːɪŋ/
Third person singularbrews /bɹuːz/

Brewed in a sentence

  • This beer was brewed with pure spring water.From the entry spring
  • Beer is brewed all over the world.From the entry beer
  • Gavin's tank brewed up on the first hit.From the entry brew up
  • Majumdar then held up another vial of electrofuel, this one brewed by a team at MIT.2012, Michael Grunwald, The New New Deal […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 379. From the entry electrofuel
  • Neither did it have the soury taste of most brewed coffee.2006 April 12, Spanx, “KOPI ROTI @ Tomas Morato”, in gimik (Google Groups), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026. From the entry soury

Meaning of brew

  1. verb To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
  2. verb To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
  3. verb To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

Full definition of brew

Questions about the past tense of brew

What is the past tense of brew?
The past tense of brew is brewed.
What is the past participle of brew?
The past participle of brew is brewed.
Is brew a regular or irregular verb?
Brew is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brew (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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