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Definition of "hell" in English

name

  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.

    • May you rot in hell!

noun

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

    • My new boss is making my job a hell.
    • I went through hell to get home today.
    • callback hell; <table> hell; <div> hell
  2. (countable) A place for gambling.

  3. (figuratively) An extremely hot place.

    • You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.
  4. (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.

    • I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
    • What the hell is wrong with you?!
    • He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.
  5. (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

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

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

    • That steep staircase is hell on my knees.

interjection

  1. Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

    • Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.
  2. (no longer productive) Used to emphasize.

    • Hell yeah!
  3. Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

    • Do it, or, rest assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!

adverb

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

    • - Oh, aren't they sweet?
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.

    • That was hell good!
    • They're hell sexy.

verb

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

  2. To hurry, rush.

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

    • He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.

verb

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

verb

  1. (rare) To pour.

    • 18th century, Josiah Relph, The Harvest; or Bashful Shepherd Gosh, the sickle went into me handː Down hell'd the bluid.