(brews, brewing, brewed)
1.
If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee.
I'll get Venner to brew some tea...
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2.
A brew is a particular kind of tea or coffee. It can also be a particular pot of tea or coffee.
...a mild herbal brew.
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3.
If a person or company brews beer, they make it.
I brew my own beer...
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• brewing
...the brewing of home-made alcohol.
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4.
If a storm is brewing, large clouds are beginning to form and the sky is becoming dark because there is going to be a storm.
We'd seen the storm brewing when we were out in the boat.
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5.
If an unpleasant or difficult situation is brewing, it is starting to develop.
At home a crisis was brewing...
There's trouble brewing.
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6.
A brew of several things is a mixture of those things.
Most cities generate a complex brew of pollutants.
...a potent brew of smooth salesmanship and amateur psychiatry.
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