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hell noun
/hel/ n Definition
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[S or U] an extremely unpleasant or difficult place, situation or experience•
[S] (also Hell) in some religions, the place where some people are believed to go after death to be punished forever for the bad things they have done during their livesI'll go to Hell for this.
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.
(Definition of hell noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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