(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.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
(v. t.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
(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.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
(v. t.) To overwhelm.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(2) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(3) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
(4) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
(5) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
(6) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(7) And what the hell do bears get up to in those woods?
(8) Instead, because of other people, it all too often becomes something else: a complete and utter hell.
(9) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
(10) One hell of a party” it ain’t, but it is great to know that you are appreciated while you are still able to hear it.
(11) One neighbour said: “Janet’s done nothing wrong and this must be hell for her.” This article was corrected on 25 March 2017.
(12) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
(13) Downtown LA is improving, but for years it was a desolate hell zone of freeways, office blocks and closed stores.
(14) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
(15) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(16) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on,” an assertion that JP Morgan has consistently claimed is false.
(17) He said the French government had opened the "gates of hell" and "fallen into a trap much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia".
(18) The question about what the hell am I doing standing in, might be raised.
(19) And when Israel is hit, it is going to be a hell, hundreds of rockets are going to fall on it.
(20) It's been a wonderful game of football, with both sides going hell-for-leather and it couldn't be more even as things stand: all square on the scoreboard, with each aside having scored an away goal.
Perdition
Definition:
(n.) Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
(n.) Loss of diminution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its president has made no secret of the fact that he regards the ECB plan to buy the debt of the eurozone's weaker members as the road to perdition.
(2) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(3) AW: And shot by the late, great Conrad Hall, who passed away just recently and got the posthumous Oscar for Road to Perdition.
(4) Among the war's real lessons are that empire, in all its forms, always leads to bloodshed; that state violence is by far its most destructive form; that corporate carve-ups fuel conflict; and that militarism and national chauvinism are the road to perdition.
(5) Its president has made no secret of the fact that he regards the ECB plan to buy the debt of the eurozone's weaker members as the road to perdition."
(6) I have made a Beckettian war movie ( Jarhead ), a $100m gangster movie like an arthouse film ( Road to Perdition ) and relationship dramas that are dark as they come ( Revolutionary Road ).
(7) There were many staging posts along the road to its perdition; each of them carried a stark warning to turn back from this path they had chosen and each was ignored by London party chiefs.
(8) Over a decade ago, at the time of the film Road To Perdition, I interviewed Daniel Craig and asked him if he’d turned down anything interesting lately.
(9) Its president has made no secret of the fact that he regards the ECB plan to buy the debt of the Eurozone's weaker members as the road to perdition.
(10) He recruited Sam Mendes to direct Skyfall, having worked with him on Road To Perdition, and persuaded him to return to direct Spectre, on which the actor also takes a co-producer’s credit.
(11) "It's hard to find anyone in Las Vegas, friends or enemies, who doesn't admire him for the sheer feats he has pulled off," says writer and journalist Marc Cooper, whose book, The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas, will be published next spring.
(12) In 1987, his production of Jim Allen’s play Perdition , which examined an alleged collaboration between Zionist leaders and the Nazis, was cancelled by Max Stafford-Clark at the Royal Court theatre just 36 hours before opening night.
(13) The Dutch might pass the ball to perdition but seldom were they allowed to find the routes through the middle which against Yugoslavia in the quarter-finals might have been motorways but which yesterday became culs-de-sac.
(14) Steadily became a fixture of British theatre - Angels In America, A Number - and cinema - Love Is The Devil, Elizabeth, The Trench, Some Voices, Enduring Love - progressing towards Hollywood - Road To Perdition and Munich.
(15) Bateman is the damned creature of a satirist's place of perdition.