The meaning of Potion

verb

Make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and fermentation.

Usage examples:

Within five years the company will brew as much beer in china as in australia

noun

A kind of beer.

Usage examples:

Small breweries which are able to offer rare brews

verb

(of tea or coffee) to become stronger in taste in the container in which it is made, or to make a hot drink or beer

Usage examples:

[ t ] he’s working on a new way to brew the perfect cup of coffee., [ i ] i felt that trouble was b…

noun

A mixture of various ingredients or elements.

Usage examples:

The facade is a strange concoction of northern mannerism and italian baroque

noun

Something put together from several different things

Usage examples:

She drinks this herbal concoction.

noun

A concentrated liquor resulting from heating or boiling a substance, especially a medicinal preparation made from a plant.

Usage examples:

A decoction of a root

noun

A current of cool air in a room or other confined space.

Usage examples:

Heavy curtains at the windows cut out draughts

adjective

Denoting beer or cider served from a barrel or tank rather than from a bottle or can.

Usage examples:

Draught ale

verb

Prepare a preliminary version of (a document).

Usage examples:

I drafted a letter of resignation

verb

Take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow.

Usage examples:

We sat by the fire, drinking our tea

noun

A liquid that can be swallowed as refreshment or nourishment.

Usage examples:

Fizzy drinks

verb

Take in liquids

noun

A magical or medicinal potion.

Usage examples:

An elixir guaranteed to induce love

noun

A substance believed to cure all ills

noun

A substance, usually a liquid, with a magical power to cure, improve, or preserve something

Usage examples:

Elixir of life/youth it's yet another health product claiming to be the elixir of life/youth (= som…

noun

The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery).

Usage examples:

He made distinguished contributions to pathology and medicine

noun

The science dealing with the preserving of health and with preventing and treating disease or injury

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Pediatrics is a branch of medicine., she continued to practice medicine until she was in her eighti…

noun

The treatment of illness or injury, or the study of how illnesses and injuries are treated

Usage examples:

Medicine has advanced enormously over the past 100 years., alternative/complementary/preventive med…

noun

A substance made by mixing other substances together.

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Form the mixture into a manageable dough

noun

A combination of substances resulting from mixing them together so that they cannot be easily separated

Usage examples:

It’s a highly explosive mixture and has to be handled carefully., good fashion designers often rely…

noun

A drink supposed to arouse love and desire for a particular person in the drinker; a love potion.

Usage examples:

His philtres and potions

noun

An alcoholic drink.

Usage examples:

Lite potations are very american

noun

A medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol.

Usage examples:

The remedies can be administered in form of tinctures

verb

Be tinged or imbued with a slight amount of.

Usage examples:

Arthur's affability was tinctured with faint sarcasm

noun

A medicine that consists of a mixture of alcohol and a small amount of a drug

Usage examples:

A/some tincture of iodine/myrrh

noun

A medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigour or well-being.

Usage examples:

Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a …

adjective

Short for tonic water.

noun

A liquid medicine intended to make you feel better generally rather than treating a particular health problem

Usage examples:

Seeing his grandchildren was the perfect tonic for him.