Dictionary Entry
hell
hell is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
- 2transitive verb
The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
- 3transitive verb
A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
- 4transitive verb
A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- 5transitive verb
A gambling house.
- 6transitive verb
A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
- 7transitive verb
To overwhelm.
- 8noun
noisy and unrestrained mischief
"raising blazes"
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- 9noun
violent and excited activity
"they began to fight like sin"
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- 10noun
(religion) the world of the dead-Theognis
"No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"
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- 11noun
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment- John Milton-Dr. Johnson
"Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"
"a demon from the depths of the pit"
- 12noun
a cause of difficulty and suffering
"war is hell"
"go to blazes"
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- 13noun
any place of pain and turmoil
"the hell of battle"
"the inferno of the engine room"
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