Meaning

8 senses
  1. (intransitive, transitive)To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

    brühen, aufbrühen

    зава́риватьzavárivatʹ, завари́тьzavarítʹ

  2. (transitive)To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.

  3. (intransitive, transitive)To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

    вари́тьvarítʹ, свари́тьsvarítʹ

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

  4. (intransitive, transitive)To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.

    brauen

    вари́тьvarítʹ, свари́тьsvarítʹ

  5. (transitive)To foment or prepare, as by brewing.

    плести́plestí, сплести́splestí

    prepare by brewing

  6. (intransitive)To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

  7. (intransitive)To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

    назрева́тьnazrevátʹ, назре́тьnazrétʹ

  8. (obsolete, transitive)To boil or seethe; to cook.

Examples

59 sentences
  1. Tom asked Mary to brew some coffee.

    Том попросив Марію приготувати каву.

    ruТом попросил Мэри сварить кофе.

    deTom bat Mary, Kaffee zu kochen.

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  2. Tom brewed some coffee.

    Том зварив кави.

    ruТом сварил кофе.

    deTom kochte sich etwas Kaffee.

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  3. Tom brews beer as a hobby.

    ruТом варит пиво в качестве хобби.

    deTom braut hobbymäßig Bier.

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  4. Tom has been trying to learn how to brew the perfect cup of coffee.

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  5. Tom brews his own beer at home.

    ruТом варит собственное пиво у себя дома.

    deTom braut sich zu Hause sein eigenes Bier.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
make tea or coffee:
make a hot soup:
to contrive; plot:
to be in a state of preparation:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
make tea or coffee:
to make beer:

Origin

From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, f

From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn.

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Forms

brews, brewing, brewed, brewed
Base formbrew · to brew
3rd person singularbrews
Present participlebrewing
Past simplebrewed
Past participlebrewed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybrew
he, she, itbrews

Past simpleLesson

all personsbrewed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave brewed
he, she, ithas brewed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill brew

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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