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hell

/hel/

Translation

n [no pl]
(en religión)
infierno
n [u, no pl]
(inform)
infierno
This city is hell
Esta ciudad es un infierno
The roadworks cause a hell of a noise
Las obras de la calle ocasionan un ruido infernal
from hell (inform)
muy malo,la
infernal
They say they had a holiday from hell
Dicen que pasaron unas vacaciones infernales
like hell (inform)
mucho
Today it's raining like hell
Hoy llueve mucho
It's freezing like hell!
¡Hace un frío que pela!
the hell (inform)What the hell is going on here?
¿Qué demonios pasa aquí?
Véase tb: to scare the hell our of somebody
(Definition of hell nn from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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