Hell

1. (n) (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. (n) (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life. 3. (n) (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun. 4. (n) (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to) 5. (n) (countable) A place for gambling. 6. (n) (figuratively) An extremely hot place. 7. (n) In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention. 8. (v) To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell. 9. (v) (intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion. 10. (adv) (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly. 11. (v) (rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold). 12. (n) (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type. 13. (v) (rare) To pour. 14. (v) To hurry, rush. 15. (n) A village in Stjørdal municipality, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962. 16. (n) Any of various places so named. 17. (adv) (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell. 18. (n) 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.] 19. (n) Alternative spelling of Hel. [(religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.] 20. (n) Alternative form of Hela.