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, the pits, inferno
- Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.
- synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium
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