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 on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno
- A cause of difficulty and suffering.
- usage: "war is hell"; "go to blazes"
- synonyms: blaze
- 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: perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit
- Religion) the world of the dead. ( "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth-Theognis
- synonyms: Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld
- Violent and excited activity.
- usage: "they began to fight like sin"
- synonyms: sin
- Noisy and unrestrained mischief.
- usage: "raising blazes"
- synonyms: blaze
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