Meaning of hell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place or situation of great suffering in life.
   countable, excessive, figuratively
2. Alternative spelling of Hel.
   alt-of, alternative
3. A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be
4. A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.
   uncountable
5. A place for gambling.
   countable
6. A place or situation of great suffering in life
7. An extremely hot place.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
8. Alternative letter-case form of hell.
   alt-of
9. A place for gambling
10. Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
    countable, sometimes, uncountable, vulgar
11. Any of various places so named.
12. An extremely hot place
13. A village in Stjørdal municipality, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962.
14. A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
15. Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun
16. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
    countable, uncountable
17. Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
    colloquial, countable, uncountable, usually, with-on

Equivalents

Examples

“May you rot in hell!”

“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

“Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.”

“Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.”

“'Cause this is a wasteland, my only retreat / With heaven above you, there's hell over me”

“My new boss is making my job a hell.”

“I went through hell to get home today.”

“callback hell; <table> hell; <div> hell”

“1879, General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”

“Why, am I dying? / Kill, have no fear / Lie, live off lying / Hell, hell is here”

“So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.”

“Here’s five-and-twenty for you. Don’t be losing it at the hells now.”

“a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless”

“But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: [...] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; [...]”

“You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.”

“She's got her arms down to her side, defiant. But just for the hell of it, she leans into him, wraps her arms around his neck, puts her head on his shoulder, and hangs on tight.”

“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”

“What the hell is wrong with you?!”

“He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.”

“This sturdy Squire, he had, as well As the bold Trojan Knight, seen Hell.”

“That steep staircase is hell on my knees.”

“In ancient times, Turfan was called Huochou, or Fire City, which was not inappropriate. Turfan is located in the lowest depression in Asia, just a notch above Hell.”

“Officially the Nordland Railway begins at Hell, but popularly the whole route north of Trondheim is so called.”

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