Hell and Despair

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

• (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.

noun

• A state in which all hope is lost or absent.
  • usage: "in the depths of despair"; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"; "courage born of desperation"
  • synonyms: desperation
• The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well.
  • usage: "they moaned in despair and dismay"; "one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair"

verb

• Abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart.
  • usage: "Don't despair-help is on the way"

• (v.t.) To cause to despair.
• (v.t.) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
• (v.i.) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
• (n.) That which is despaired of.
• (n.) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.