"witches' brew" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Gus Martin, Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues, SAGE, →ISBN, page 22:",
          "text": "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[…]",
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          "ref": "2019 December 13, Michael Davis, The Music of Reason: Rousseau, Nietzsche, Plato, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 83:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A strange, powerful, terrifying or dangerous concoction of ingredients."
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          "dangerous",
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          "english": "singular versus plural but homophonous",
          "word": "witch's brew"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪtʃɪzˌbɹuː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌwɪtʃɪzˈbɹuː/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "witch's brew"
    }
  ],
  "word": "witches' brew"
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        },
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          "ref": "2019 December 13, Michael Davis, The Music of Reason: Rousseau, Nietzsche, Plato, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 83:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɪtʃɪzˌbɹuː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌwɪtʃɪzˈbɹuː/"
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