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Hellfire

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The fire of hell, considered as punishment for sinners.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the fire of Hell

n. fire produced by the Devil, or a similar supernatural creature connected to Hell

n. a fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned

Word Usage

"The Likudniks, Yisrael Beiteinu, Kach and Kahane Chai, and the Christo-Kharijites whose support for Israel is based on the belief that the Jews must own all of the Mandate of Palestine so that Jesus can come back to earth and all Jews, Muslims, and non-fundamentalist Christians will burn in hellfire for not accepting Christianity."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

perdition nether region inferno hell infernal region

Cross Reference

fire and brimstone

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

hell-fire stultification before-but jacinth fire-and-brimstone