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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