Meanings
plural witches' brews · alternative witch's brew
- A strange, powerful, terrifying or dangerous concoction of ingredients.
The non-Greek festivals are characterized by a sexual license that engulfs the family and […] so leads to incest and a “witches' brew” of salaciousness and cruelty.
2019 December 13, Michael Davis, The Music of Reason: Rousseau, Nietzsche, Plato, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 831 more example
In turn, the nitro-glycerin ignited cardboard boxes containing a witches' brew of urea pellets and sulphuric acid.22 According to investigators and other officials, Yousef's objective was to topple Tower One onto Tower Two[…]
2010, Gus Martin, Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues, SAGE, →ISBN, page 22
Synonyms & antonyms
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witches' brew. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/witches'%20brew
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