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Hell   /hɛl/   Listen
Hell

noun
1.
Any place of pain and turmoil.  Synonyms: hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits.  "The inferno of the engine room" , "When you're alone Christmas is the pits"
2.
A cause of difficulty and suffering.  Synonym: blaze.  "Go to blazes"
3.
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment.  Synonyms: infernal region, Inferno, nether region, perdition, pit.  "A demon from the depths of the pit" , "Hell is paved with good intentions"
4.
(religion) the world of the dead.  Synonyms: Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld.
5.
Violent and excited activity.  Synonym: sin.
6.
Noisy and unrestrained mischief.  Synonym: blaze.



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"Hell" Quotes from Famous Books



... possess touch, taste, and smell. The next higher one that of bees, etc., possessing vision in addition to touch, taste, and smell. The vertebrates possess all the five sense-organs. The higher animals among these, namely men, denizens of hell, and the gods possess in addition to these an inner sense-organ namely manas by virtue of ...
— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... never growed brittle, like some wood, with age and dryness. No storm could splinter it, and it would fling itself over into the high waves sometimes, rayther than snap and lash them like a whip. But there it lies, burned with the fire of heaven's wrath, at last, and leaving its fires of hell behind, in the ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield

... the unnerving noise he'd made already, he went on brightly, "Neat job too, I give you credit for that, but why the hell did you have to set ...
— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... one hillside animals were frightened from their grazing as we passed. There were the cluttered streets of several cities and villages. There was a prodigious number of telegraph poles going in the opposite direction, hell-bent as fast as we, which poles considerately went at half speed through towns, for fear of hitting children. The United States was once an immense country, and extended quite to the sunset. For convenience we have ...
— Journeys to Bagdad • Charles S. Brooks

... he turned and spake: "King, only for thy nobler sake Than aught of power man's power may take Or pride of place that pride may break I bid the lordlier man in thee, That lives within the king, give ear. This justice done before thee here On one that hell's own heart holds dear, Needs might not this ...
— The Tale of Balen • Algernon Charles Swinburne


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