overbrew

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English

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ brew.

Verb

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overbrew (third-person singular simple present overbrews, present participle overbrewing, simple past and past participle overbrewed)

  1. To brew for too long.
    • 2010, Emily James Putnam, The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of Her History:
      Thrale was a prosperous brewer, but was beset by a tendency to "overbrew," which nearly ruined him.
    • 2011, Johan F.M. Swinnen, The Economics of Beer:
      It was so common for brewers simply to overbrew that the town government in 1501 appointed seven beer tasters.