hell

A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.capitalizedoften

• May you rot in hell!

A place or situation of great suffering in life.countableexcessivefiguratively

• My new boss is making my job a hell.
• I went through hell to get home today.

A place for gambling.countable

• Here’s five-and-twenty for you. Don’t be losing it at the hells now.
• a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless

An extremely hot place.countablefigurativelyuncountable

• You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.
• when hell freezes over

Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.countablemildlyuncountable

• I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
• What the hell is wrong with you?!

A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.countableobsoleteuncountable

• This sturdy Squire, he had, as well As the bold Trojan Knight, seen Hell.

In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.countableuncountable

Something extremely painful or harmful (to)colloquialcountableuncountable

• That steep staircase is hell on my knees.

Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.colloquialsometimesvulgar

• Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.

Used to emphasize.colloquialidiomaticsometimes

• Hell yeah!

Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.colloquialsometimesvulgar

• Do it, or, rest assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!

Alternative form of the hell or like hell.alt-ofalternativecolloquial

• - Oh, aren't they sweet?

Very; used to emphasize strongly.AustraliaNew-Zealandcolloquial

• That was hell good!
• They're hell sexy.

To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.colloquialsometimesvulgar

To hurry, rush.colloquialsometimesvulgar

• I had already lost thirteen points, all because she had to come helling in there at twelve, worrying me about that letter.

To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.colloquialintransitivesometimes

• He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.

To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).colloquialraresometimes

• To hell gold or gilt workː take two ounces of tartar, two ounces of sulfur.. and it will give it a fine luster.

To pour.colloquialraresometimes

• 18th century, Josiah Relph, The Harvest; or Bashful Shepherd Gosh, the sickle went into me handː Down hell'd the bluid.