as in hell
the place of punishment for the wicked after death
a vision in which the souls of the damned plunged into Tophet like rocks falling down a mountainside
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Noun
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It's been a hell of a day, workwise.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 May 2026 -
In it, Lestat is taken on a journey through heaven and hell by the devil, and Jesus offers his blood to Lestat to drink.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
25 May 2026
Noun
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Our bombs turned the city into a burning inferno and killed countless civilians.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2026
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Twenty-six years earlier, a roaring inferno engulfed a Monte Carlo penthouse killing a billionaire and his private nurse.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Misprisions of this kind were more likely to occur, the experts argued, in religious settings marked by the rigorous policing of strict ethical injunctions or an emphasis on particular states of mind as markers of grace or perdition.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Mar. 2026
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Sloth, after all, is a deadly sin, and it was often seen as the first step on the slippery slope to perdition.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Tophet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tophet. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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