1
as in inferno
the place of punishment for the wicked after death
condemned to hell for their sins
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2
as in nightmare
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness
picking cotton under the hot summer sun was hell
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as in havoc
a state in which everything is out of order
all hell broke loose when the jury's verdict was announced
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Recent Examples of hell
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is healthy but he’s been in a hell in a cell against this Spurs defense.
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The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 29 May 2026
That’s one hell of a message for Fiebich to hear in her first game back with the Liberty under a new head coach.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
Additionally, Gemmill said Laëtitia Hollard will return as Emma, the fresh-faced nurse who chose one hell of a day to start in the ER, and that Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez) will explore emergency psychiatry, which was teased in the season 2 finale.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
Welcome to a uniquely feminized hell.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 May 2026
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The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 29 May 2026
That’s one hell of a message for Fiebich to hear in her first game back with the Liberty under a new head coach.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
Additionally, Gemmill said Laëtitia Hollard will return as Emma, the fresh-faced nurse who chose one hell of a day to start in the ER, and that Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez) will explore emergency psychiatry, which was teased in the season 2 finale.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
Welcome to a uniquely feminized hell.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hell
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Crucial events morphed into massive set pieces, like Louis hunting down Claudia’s killers by setting their theater on fire, exploding the motorcycles of the vampires who fled the inferno, and eventually bursting out of a manhole to behead Claudia’s main tormenter.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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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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Doue and Dembele also drop into midfield, while Kvaratskhelia is his usual destructive self off the left, rounding off a nightmare of rotations and raw running power that tempts defences out of their shape before smashing through.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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The nightly variance in a league that shot 44 percent from the floor last season is a mathematical nightmare.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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The Hornets thrived all season by creating havoc on the base paths.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
30 May 2026
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Federico Chiesa Even though injuries have played havoc with Liverpool’s attack, Chiesa has been unable to secure a more meaningful role.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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The rescue team was able to pump enough water out of the system for four miners to crawl out of the muddy abyss on Saturday, authorities said.—
Aicha El Hammar Castano,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
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Never before has the abyss so desperately needed a makeover.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Tony was in agony and there was a lot of blood.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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Jack Grealish had rolled on the floor in agony.—
Sam Lee,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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In a memo released Thursday morning, Levine Cava did not mention the fuel depot mess in announcing the immediate departures of Morales and Webb.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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Platner is navigating this mess with a notably shallow reserve of goodwill, even among his backers on the left.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 June 2026
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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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The world may have looked grim in what was also a penultimate week before elections, when the focus becomes necessarily not on joy but misery, the political premise being the winning candidate is the one who makes the electorate the angriest.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Plus, to your other point, any contender is one injury away from misery, as the Warriors have shown with Stephen Curry in recent years or the Pacers showed with Tyrese Halliburton this season (while accepting the Celtics as an outlier).—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
2 June 2026
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“Hell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hell. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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