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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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
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The show’s intellectual horrors in no way dilute the on-screen gore, though.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2025
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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
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Former Jews deemed insufficiently converted faced the Spanish Inquisition’s tortures.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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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
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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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