Hell vs Heartbreak - What's the difference?
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In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
(Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost
* 1916 , James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(countable, hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
* 1879 , General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
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(countable) A place for gambling.
* W. Black
* 1907 , (Joseph Conrad), The Secret Agent
An extremely hot place.
(Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun)
(obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment
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Hell is a related term of heartbreak.
As a proper noun hell
is .As a noun heartbreak is
overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.hell
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* (Christianity) Hell * *Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Do Muslims believe that all non-Muslims go to hell ?
- May you rot in hell !
- Better to reign in Hell' than serve in ' Heaven .
- Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.
Synonyms
* (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death) Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld * (Mormonism) Spirit]] [[prison, PrisonAntonyms
* (sense) heavenNoun
(en noun)- My new boss is making my job a hell .
- I went through hell to get home today.
- There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell .
- a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
- You don't have a snowball's chance in hell .
- I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
- What the hell is wrong with you?
- He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
- (Hudibras)
Derived terms
* as hell * forty minutes of hell * hell and half of Georgia * hella * hellagood * hell-fire * hell for leather * hell hath no fury like a woman scorned * hellish * hell on earth * hell on wheels * hell's delight * hellspawn * hell to pay * hell week * like hell * living hell * no screaming hell * the hell * the hell out of * the hell with it * to hell with * what the hellheartbreak
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