Deviled and Hell
(imp.&p.p.) of Devil.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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 on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno
- A cause of difficulty and suffering.
- usage: "war is hell"; "go to blazes"
- synonyms: blaze
- Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment. ( "Hurl'd headlong... To bottomless perdition, there to dwell- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions-Dr. Johnson
- synonyms: perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit
- Religion) the world of the dead. ( "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth-Theognis
- synonyms: Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld
- Violent and excited activity.
- usage: "they began to fight like sin"
- synonyms: sin
- Noisy and unrestrained mischief.
- usage: "raising blazes"
- synonyms: blaze
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (v.t.) A gambling house.
- (v.t.) To overwhelm.
- (v.t.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered.
- (v.t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
- (v.t.) The place of the dead or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
- (v.t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds or a printer his broken type.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary