witches' brew

1. 1.

   a fearsome mixture

   “a witches' brew of gangsters and terrorists”

   “mixing dope and alcohol creates a witches' brew”

   Synonymswitches' brothwitch's brew

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Questions about witches' brew

What does witches' brew mean?

witches' brew means "a fearsome mixture".

What is another word for witches' brew?

Close synonyms include witches' broth, witch's brew. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is witches' brew a common word?

witches' brew is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.