as in hell
the place of punishment for the wicked after death
simple stupidity is not enough to doom one to perdition
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Recent Examples of perdition
Or did Christ die only for us, leaving any other creatures to a kind of limbo or perdition?
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Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024
Although Adolf Hitler met his road to perdition, Joseph Stalin survived and extended his despotism.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
But the barrier between life and death is no less permeable than those between childhood and adulthood, or dreams and reality, or a world of perdition and a hidden paradise.
—Maya Phillips, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
Images: Bloomberg News/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The latest mile marker on New York City’s road to urban perdition is a PSA from the health commissioner.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
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Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024
Although Adolf Hitler met his road to perdition, Joseph Stalin survived and extended his despotism.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
But the barrier between life and death is no less permeable than those between childhood and adulthood, or dreams and reality, or a world of perdition and a hidden paradise.
—Maya Phillips, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
Images: Bloomberg News/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The latest mile marker on New York City’s road to urban perdition is a PSA from the health commissioner.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perdition
Noun
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If this is the slow kind of hell, I’m used to it— My hands are folded the wrong way, the cat sits on the bed Like a limpet, the sun drops out of the sky, inexorable As a chandelier earring.—
Jane Yeh,
The New York Review of Books,
8 May 2025
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The first is Lorraine Bracco’s Roberta, his mother’s best friend, a passionate Sicilian now raising hell in a nursing home.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that 18 suspects have been arrested for alleged arson amid the inferno, which has spread across more than 5,000 acres in the foothills of Jerusalem over the past two days.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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With too little carbon dioxide, Earth can become a frozen wasteland, and with too much, a sweltering inferno.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Perdition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perdition. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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