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
This feels more like early Game of Thrones, when Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) was still cracking wise and not everything had gone to hell.
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Through mountainous trails, rolling rivers and prospectors who don’t welcome competition, this is one hell ride.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
The result is a literary thangka,or Tibetan scroll, that takes in heaven, hell, and most of the places in between.
—Pico Iyer, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026
That will give the people over in the administration the green light to unleash more hell upon our state.
—Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Through mountainous trails, rolling rivers and prospectors who don’t welcome competition, this is one hell ride.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
The result is a literary thangka,or Tibetan scroll, that takes in heaven, hell, and most of the places in between.
—Pico Iyer, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026
That will give the people over in the administration the green light to unleash more hell upon our state.
—Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hell
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In a disturbing incident in the northern city of Rasht, regime forces shot unarmed civilians trying to escape an inferno engulfing its bazaar.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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They were fanned into a near-inferno by comments from administration officials blaming him for what had occurred.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
26 Jan. 2026
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What is intended to be a carefree girls trip devolves into a nightmare, unfolding when Katie (Charli xcx) becomes possessed by a violent, tortured spirit (Mizuhara) in the Japanese horror tradition.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2026
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As much as the looming Seahawks-Pats showdown has all the makings of nightmare fuel, the people who dragged young Winston into this mess have by now probably grown accustomed to gutting out a Jets-free Super Bowl.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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This is about Tom Homan and Greg Bovino and Kristi Noem and all the other immigration officials that have wrought so much unfounded havoc.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Expect Williams and Murphy to wreak similar havoc.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Feb. 2026
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The next few months are pivotal and will determine whether this team slides backward into the abyss that came before Shanahan or back onto a path where Cup contention becomes viable again.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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Incarnating a character like this, involves a lot of jumps into an unknown abyss of a play, of a game, of a world that’s been created, and every day there is a risk.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2026
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The agony of not knowing what would happen to his wife and only child overwhelmed Luis, Xiong said.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Well, there was a great deal left in me, in an agony of embarrassment looking around for that hole on the floor to crawl into.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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Specifically, the bench is a dysfunctional mess.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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And now we’re stuck having to clean up this mess.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
5 Feb. 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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California policymakers continue to make laws and allow regulators to contrive rules that make California a land of perdition rather than destination for enterprise because they have been captured by left-of-center interests.—
Kerry Jackson,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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Embracing misery is one kind of defiance; demanding to be heard is another.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2026
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This year, more than usual, a group of Florida lawmakers are clinging to a Biblical-sounding principle — and doing their best to ensure that the wages of sin are, at the very least, misery.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Hell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hell. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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