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living hell

NOUN
hell
Synonyms
WEAK
Abaddon Gehenna Hades abyss affliction agony anguish blazes bottomless pit difficulty everlasting fire fire and brimstone grave hellfire infernal regions inferno limbo lower world misery nether world nightmare ordeal pandemonium perdition persecution pit place of torment purgatory suffering torment torture tortures of the damned trial underworld wretchedness

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Police say Damian A. made their lives "a living hell".

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

"I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

Because Deborah has it, and she’s made the lives of her loved ones a living hell because of it.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

I just had the surgery five weeks ago and then I had to be on two weeks vocal rest, which was living hell.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

I could see in his eyes that he knew he was a man again, a man returned from a living hell.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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