Usually means: Prepare drink by steeping ingredients.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. brew: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. brew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brew: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brew: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brew, brew: Wordnik
  7. brew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Brew, brew: Wiktionary
  9. brew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brew: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brew, brew: Dictionary.com
  13. brew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brew: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BREW, Brew (horse), Brew, The Brew (band), The Brew (brand): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brew: Rhymezone
  19. brew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Brew: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. brew: Free Dictionary
  23. brew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. brew: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brew: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BREW: CCI Computer
  2. BREW: Game Dictionary
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  4. BREW: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BREW: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. brew: Idioms

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brew (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. brew, brew: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. brew: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Brew (Brewski): 1960's Slang
  5. brew: ESL Slang page
  6. brew, the brew: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See brewed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
verb:  (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
verb:  (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
verb:  (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
verb:  (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
noun:  The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
noun:  (slang) A serving of beer.
noun:  (British, slang) A cup of tea.
noun:  (British, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
noun:  A surname.

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