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hellfires

noun

plural of hellfire
as in pits

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  1. pits
  2. abysses
  3. hells
Noun
  • This is just one of many parts of the course that were absolutely torn up, including an area just off the 1st green where a couple of thousand runners turned areas into mud pits.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Commanders directed operations and communicated with higher command, drivers negotiated bridges, water pits, and craters, and gunners identified targets considered the greatest threat.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of pits
Noun
  • Jean-Pierre is an artifact of an age that looks recent on paper but feels prehistoric in practice—the age of pantsuits, the word ’empowerment,’ the musical Hamilton, the cheap therapeutic entreaties to ‘work on yourself’ and ‘lean in’ to various corporate abysses.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
  • On the other side of the country, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, a longtime reader favorite, is a warm alternative to sterile airport abysses.
    — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of abysses
Noun
  • An episode of septicemia, with its hells and paradises, its nightmares and hallucinations, transforms Borges into a story writer.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The Avici hell is the lowest and most terrible level of the eight hot hells of Buddhism, where those who’ve committed serious crimes (like parricide) must face constant suffering.
    — Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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“Hellfires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellfires. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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