3
maceration
3
mire(noun, hell)
3
mortification(noun, trouble, worry, abuse, pain)
3
nether world(noun, expression, misery, punishment, agony)
3
pandemonium(noun, difficulty, misery, trial, grave)
3
pit(noun, ruin, misery, punishment, grave)
3
place of torment(noun, expression, idiom, misery, punishment)
3
torment(noun, difficulty, pain, misery, grave)
2
holocaust(noun, hell)
2
fasting
2
flagellation
2
Abaddon(noun, ruin, misery, punishment, grave)
2
afterlife
2
cold purgatorial fires(expression, idiom)
2
deprivation(noun, abuse, stick, discipline, reprimand)
2
expiatory
2
grief(noun, pain, sorrow, suffering, anguish)
2
jahannan
2
netherworld(noun, punishment, hell, perdition, underworld)
2
nightmare(noun, difficulty, misery, trial, grave)
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