hell

/HH EH1 L/
noun
  1. 1

    (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.

  2. 2

    (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.

  3. 3

    (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.

  4. 4

    (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

  5. 5

    (countable) A place for gambling.

  6. 6

    (figuratively) An extremely hot place.

  7. 7

    In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

  8. 8

    (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

  9. 9

    A village in Stjørdal municipality, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962.

  10. 10

    Any of various places so named.

  11. 11

    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.]

  12. 12

    Alternative spelling of Hel. [(religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.]

  13. 13

    Alternative form of Hela.

verb
  1. 1

    To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.

  2. 2

    (intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

  3. 3

    (rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).

  4. 4

    (rare) To pour.

  5. 5

    To hurry, rush.

adverb
  1. 1

    (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.

  2. 2

    (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.