hell — Słownik języka angielskiego

Nazwa własna

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

   Użycie

   • capitalized
   • often
   • in many religions

   Synonimy

   afterlife

   Antonimy

   heaven

   Przykłady

   May you rot in hell!

   Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

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   Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

   Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

   Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

   'Cause this is a wasteland, my only retreat / With heaven above you, there's hell over me

Rzeczownik

1. A place or situation of great suffering in life.

   Użycie

   • policzalne
   • excessive
   • przenośne

   Przykłady

   My new boss is making my job a hell.

   I went through hell to get home today.

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   callback hell; hell; hell

   1879, General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

   Why, am I dying? / Kill, have no fear / Lie, live off lying / Hell, hell is here

   So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.

2. A place for gambling.

   Użycie

   • policzalne

   Przykłady

   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

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   There's light behind here—a hole through the wall. I believe the place is a regular swindling hell.

   But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; […]

3. An extremely hot place.

   Użycie

   • policzalne
   • przenośne
   • niepoliczalne

   Przykłady

   You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.

   when hell freezes over

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

   Użycie

   • policzalne
   • mildly
   • niepoliczalne
   • wulgarne

   Przykłady

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   She's got her arms down to her side, defiant. But just for the hell of it, she leans into him, wraps her arms around his neck, puts her head on his shoulder, and hangs on tight.

   I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.

   What the hell is wrong with you?!

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   He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.

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

   Użycie

   • policzalne
   • wyszłe z użycia
   • niepoliczalne

   Przykłady

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

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

   Użycie

   • policzalne
   • niepoliczalne

7. Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • policzalne
   • niepoliczalne
   • usually
   • with-on

   Przykłady

   That steep staircase is hell on my knees.

Wykrzyknik

1. Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

   Przykłady

   Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.

   O hell! what have we here? A carrion Death, within whose empty eye There is a written scroll! […]

2. Used to emphasize.

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • idiomatic
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

   Przykłady

   Hell yeah!

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

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

   Przykłady

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

Przysłówek

1. Very; used to emphasize strongly.

   Użycie

   • Australia
   • New-Zealand
   • potoczne
   • not-comparable
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

   Synonimy

   hella

   Przykłady

   That was hell good!

   They're hell sexy.

Czasownik

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

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

2. To hurry, rush.

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

   Przykłady

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

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

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • nieprzechodnie
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

   Przykłady

   He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.

Czasownik

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

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • rzadkie
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

   Przykłady

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

Czasownik

1. To pour.

   Użycie

   • potoczne
   • rzadkie
   • sometimes
   • wulgarne

   Przykłady

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

Rzeczownik

1. any place of pain and turmoil

   Synonimy

   hell on earthhellholesnake pitthe pitsinferno

   Terminy szersze

   regionpart

   Przykłady

   the hell of battle

   the inferno of the engine room

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   when you're alone Christmas is the pits

2. a cause of difficulty and suffering

   Synonimy

   blaze

   Terminy szersze

   trouble

   Przykłady

   war is hell

   go to blazes

3. noisy and unrestrained mischief

   Synonimy

   blaze

   Terminy szersze

   mischiefmischief-makingmischievousnessdeviltrydevilrydevilmentrascalityrogueryroguishnessshenanigan

   Przykłady

   raising blazes