Gehennas

plural of Gehenna
as in nightmares
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness the depression that has enshrouded her since the death of her husband is a Gehenna from which she may never be released

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Noun
  • For years, Billboard has tracked the graveyard smashes, thriller nights and legal nightmares that have sunk their teeth into the KILLboard Rot 100.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
  • King is said to have had nightmares that night — his son running through endless hallways, pursued by a malevolent presence — inspiring the plot of the famous movie.
    Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The show’s intellectual horrors in no way dilute the on-screen gore, though.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Pluribus is as dry, ironic, brutal, and alert to the horrors festering in no small number of human souls as anything he’s made.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Former Jews deemed insufficiently converted faced the Spanish Inquisition’s tortures.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Falling support in Gaza Palestinian public pressure on Hamas has risen as the miseries of war have mounted.
    Mkhaimar Abusada, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But current virus variants continue to spread burning throats, fevers and other miseries.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Gehennas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Gehennas. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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