brewverb
uk/bruː/us/bruː/brew verb (DRINK)
[ T ] to make beer
[ I or T ] If you brew tea or coffee, you add boiling water to it to make a hot drink, and if it brews, it gradually develops flavour in the container in which it was made:
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Beer & cider
- ale
- beer
- beer mat
- bitter
- brewer
- draft
- jar
- keg party
- lager
- microbrew
- microbrewery
- mild
- mug
- pint
- scrumpy
- shandy
- stein
- stout
- suds
- sweet cider
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brew verb (BAD SITUATION)
[ I ] If an unpleasant situation or a storm is brewing, you feel that it is about to happen:
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About to happen
- (just) around the corner idiom
- about
- at hand idiom
- be on the point of (doing) sth idiom
- be ready to roll idiom
- beckon
- come up
- corner
- horizon
- in the air idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- loom
- looming
- make to do sth idiom
- ready
- store
- teeter
- teeter on the brink/edge of sth idiom
- threshold
- wait in the wings idiom
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brewnoun
uk/bruː/us/bruː/brew noun (DRINK)
[ C ] a type of beer, especially one made in a particular place or at a particular time
[ C usually singular ] UK informal a drink of tea or a drink of beer:
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Beer & cider
- ale
- beer
- beer mat
- bitter
- brewer
- draft
- jar
- keg party
- lager
- microbrew
- microbrewery
- mild
- mug
- pint
- scrumpy
- shandy
- stein
- stout
- suds
- sweet cider
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brew noun (MIX)
[ C ] a mixture of several things:
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Mixing and mixtures
- be neither one thing nor the other idiom
- beat
- blend
- blend in/blend into sth
- churn
- cocktail
- combination
- cross-fertilization
- decoction
- emulsion
- impure
- intermingle
- meld
- mingle
- mixture
- neither
- preparation
- roll
- rolled into one idiom
- substance
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