hell
IPA: hˈɛɫ
noun
- (in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.
- (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
- (sometimes considered vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (colloquial, with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
- Any of various places so named.
- A village in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962
- Alternative spelling of Hel [(religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.]
- Alternative form of Hela
- Alternative letter-case form of hell [(in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.]
verb
- To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.
- To hurry, rush.
- (rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).
- (rare) To pour.
adverb
- (Australia, impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.
- (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
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Examples of "hell" in Sentences
- Welkin is the opposite of hell.
- They scared the hell out of him.
- He irritated the hell out of me.
- The crowd was hollering and raising hell.
- Alright, who the hell deleted the results
- Annoys the hell out of the others actually.
- In hell, the rich man was feeling regretful.
- In hell, there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- He was the consummate leader of the Hells Angels.
- A citation is asked for on the deist view of Hell.
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