Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word HELL
HELL
Definitions of HELL
- Any of various places so named.
- (countable, hyperbole, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
- (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.
- (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell. or like hell.
- To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell. [from 17th c.]
- To hurry, rush. [from 19th c.]
- (rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).
- (rare) To pour.
- (in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.
- (sometimes, vulgar) Used as an in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
- (colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
- (colloquial, sometimes, vulgar, non-productive) Used to emphasize.
- (colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.
- Alternative spelling of Hel..
- Alternative form of Hela..
- Alternative letter-case form of hell..
- (Australia, NZ, colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using HELL in a Sentence
- The game begins on the moons of Mars and finishes in hell, with the player traversing each level to find its exit or defeat its final boss.
- Medieval theologians of Western Europe described the underworld ("hell", "hades", "infernum") as divided into three distinct parts: Hell of the Damned, Limbo of the Fathers or Patriarchs, and Limbo of the Infants.
- Oh hell or contract whist is a trick-taking card game of British origin in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid.
- Lewis, in which Lewis argues that human pain, animal pain, and hell are not sufficient reasons to reject belief in a good and powerful God.
- Within his lifetime, his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell.
- In computing, DLL hell is a term for the complications that arise when one works with dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) used with Microsoft Windows operating systems, particularly legacy 16-bit editions, which all run in a single memory space.
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