noun
- Any place of pain and turmoil.
- usage: "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";
- synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits
- A very intense and uncontrolled fire.
- synonyms: conflagration
- Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment. ( "Hurl'd headlong... To bottomless perdition, there to dwell- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions-Dr. Johnson
- synonyms: Hell, perdition, infernal region, nether region, pit
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