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As nouns the difference between hell and kill

is that hell is a place or situation of great suffering in life while kill is the act of killing.

As a proper noun hell

is in various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death.

As an interjection hell

is Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

As a verb kill is

to put to death; to extinguish the life of.

hell

English

(wikipedia hell)

Alternative forms

* (Christianity) Hell * *

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
    • Do Muslims believe that all non-Muslims go to hell ?
  • (Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death
    • May you rot in hell !
  • * 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost
    • Better to reign in Hell' than serve in ' Heaven .
  • * 1916 , James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    • 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, Prison

    Antonyms

    * (sense) heaven

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
    • My new boss is making my job a hell .
    I went through hell to get home today.
  • * 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 .
  • *
  • (countable) A place for gambling.
  • * W. Black
    • a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
  • * 1907 , (Joseph Conrad), The Secret Agent
  • An extremely hot place.
    • You don't have a snowball's chance in hell .
  • (Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun)
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
    • (Hudibras)
  • In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

    • 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 hell

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
    • Oh, hell ! I got another parking ticket.
    • Hell , yeah!

    See also

    * damn * heck English intensifiers English swear words ----

    kill

    English

    (wikipedia kill)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) killen, kyllen, , (etyl) kellen.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
    • Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
    There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills .
  • (fiction) To invent a story that conveys the death of (a character).
    • Shakespeare killed Romeo and Juliet for drama.
  • To render inoperative.
    • He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
    (1978):
  • :: Peter : Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.
  • :: Policeman : What did you do to his arm, Peter?
  • :: Peter''': I '''killed it, with a machine gun.
  • (figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
    • The editor decided to kill the story.
    The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
    My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
  • (transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
    • That night, she was dressed to kill .
    That joke always kills me.
  • (figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
    • It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
    It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
  • To use up or to waste.
    • I'm just doing this to kill time.
    He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle."
  • (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
    • Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
    Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
  • (transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
    • The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
  • To force a company out of business.
  • (informal) To produce intense pain.
    • You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill .
  • (figuratively, informal, hyperbole) To punish severely.
    • My parents are going to kill me!
  • (sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 4 , author=Gareth Roberts , title=Wales 19-26 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.}}
  • (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
  • (computing, Internet, IRC) To disconnect (a user) forcibly from the network.
    • Synonyms
    * (to put to death) assassinate, bump off, ice, knock off, liquidate, murder, rub out, slaughter, slay, top, whack * (to use up or waste) fritter away, while away * (to render inoperative) break, deactivate, disable, turn off * (to exert an overwhelming effect on) annihilate (informal) * See also

    Related terms

    * instakill * killer * killing * killjoy * kill off * kill-time

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of killing.
    • The assassin liked to make a clean kill , and thus favored small arms over explosives.
  • Specifically, the death blow.
    • The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
  • The result of killing; that which has been killed.
    • The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
  • (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  • * 2011 , the 34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame'', in 's ''Campus Magazine , Spring/Summer 2011, page 21:
    • As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill' percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 ' kills , ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
    Derived terms
    * in for the kill * thrill kill

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
    • The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill''' van Kull, or the '''Kills .
    Schuylkill''', Cats'''kill , etc.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kiln.
    • (Fuller)
    1000 English basic words ----