Brew vs. Stew

Brewverb

To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

Stewnoun

(obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

Brewverb

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

Stewnoun

A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.

Brewverb

To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

Stewnoun

(archaic) A brothel.

Brewverb

To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.

Stewnoun

(obsolete) A prostitute.

Brewverb

(transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing

Stewnoun

A dish cooked by stewing.

Brewverb

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

Stewnoun

(Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.

Brewverb

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

Stewnoun

An artificial bed of oysters.

Brewverb

To boil or seethe; to cook.

Stewnoun

(slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

‘to be in a stew’;

Brewnoun

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea.

Stewnoun

A steward or stewardess on an airplane.

Brewnoun

(slang) A beer.

Stewverb

To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

‘I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.’; ‘The meat is stewing nicely.’;

Brewnoun

A hill.

Stewverb

(transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

Brewverb

To boil or seethe; to cook.

Stewverb

To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

Brewverb

To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.

Stewverb

To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

Brewverb

To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

‘Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.’;

Stewnoun

A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

Brewverb

To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.

‘Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!’;

Stewnoun

An artificial bed of oysters.

Brewverb

To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

‘I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour.’;

Stewnoun

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

‘As burning Ætna from his boiling stewDoth belch out flames.’; ‘The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews.’;

Brewverb

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.

‘There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.’;

Stewnoun

A brothel; - usually in the plural.

‘There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews.’;

Brewnoun

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

Stewnoun

A prostitute.

Brewnoun

drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling

Stewnoun

A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.

Brewverb

prepare by brewing;

‘people have been brewing beer for thousands of years’;

Stewnoun

A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

Brewverb

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

‘the tea is brewing’;

Stewverb

To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

Brewverb

make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and fermentation

‘within five years the company will brew as much beer in China as in Australia’; ‘the brewing industry’;

Stewverb

To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.

Brewverb

make (tea or coffee) by mixing it with hot water

‘I've just brewed some coffee’;

Stewnoun

agitation resulting from active worry;

‘don't get in a stew’; ‘he's in a sweat about exams’;

Brewverb

make tea

‘he insisted on sitting us down and then went to brew up’;

Stewnoun

food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

Brewverb

(of an unwelcome event or situation) begin to develop

‘a storm was brewing’; ‘there was more trouble brewing as the miners went on strike’;

Stewverb

be in a huff; be silent or sullen

Brewnoun

a kind of beer

‘small breweries which are able to offer rare brews’;

Stewverb

bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings

Brewnoun

a glass or can of beer

‘he dug a brew out from the cooler and flipped the ringtop’;

Stewverb

cook slowly and for a long time in liquid;

‘Stew the vegetables in wine’;

Brewnoun

a cup or mug of tea or coffee

‘she took a sip of the hot reviving brew’;

Stew

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables and may include meat, especially tougher meats suitable for slow-cooking, such as beef, poultry, sausages, and seafood.

Brewnoun

a mixture of events, people, or things which interact to form a more potent whole

‘a dangerous brew of political turmoil and violent conflict’;