hell
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(in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.
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(countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
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(sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
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(colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
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(countable) A place for gambling.
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(figuratively) An extremely hot place.
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In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
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(obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
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A village in Stjørdal municipality, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962.
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Any of various places so named.
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Alternative letter-case form of hell. [(in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.]
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Alternative spelling of Hel. [(religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.]
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Alternative form of Hela.
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To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.
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(intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.
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(rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).
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(rare) To pour.
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To hurry, rush.
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(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.
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(postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
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