hell
noun /hel/Definition
B2 [S or U] an extremely unpleasant or difficult place, situation, or experience: Work is sheer hell at the moment. The last few months have been absolute hell. → See also hellhole, infernalHell B2 [S] (also Hell) in some religions, the place where some people are believed to go after death to be punished for ever for the bad things they have done during their lives: I'll go to Hell for this.HellLife after death make sb's life hell (also make life hell for sb) informal › to cause a lot of problems for someone and make them very unhappy: I worked for her for two years and she made my life hell.Treating people or animals badlyInsults and abuseUnkind, cruel and unfeelingViolent or aggressive
(Definition of hell noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a raw deal idiom
- at the hands of sb idiom
- batten on sb phrasal verb
- be heavy on sb idiom
- be put upon phrasal verb
- grind the faces of the poor idiom
- harassment noun
- have your knife into sb idiom
- hit sb where it hurts idiom
- ill-treat verb
- persecute verb
- persecution noun
- persecutor noun
- pick on sb phrasal verb
- prey on sb phrasal verb
- trample verb (TREAT WITHOUT RESPECT)
- treat sb like dirt idiom
- trespass on/upon sth phrasal verb
- tyrannical adjective
- tyrannize verb
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