brew

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I - noun

drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
• Syn:
brewage
• Derivationally related forms:
brew (for: brewage)
• Hypernyms:
alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant
• Hyponyms:
beer, kvass, mead, cassiri, spruce beer

II - verb

1. prepare by brewing
- people have been brewing beer for thousands of years
• Derivationally related forms:
brewer, brewage, brewery
• Hypernyms:
create from raw material, create from raw stuff
• Entailment:
sour, turn, ferment, work
• Verb Frames:
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2. sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
- the tea is brewing
• Hypernyms:
soak, imbue
• Verb Frames:
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- Somebody ----s something