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Gehenna
noun as in hell
Strong matches
noun as in living hell
Weak matches
- Abaddon
- abyss
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- blazes
- bottomless pit
- difficulty
- everlasting fire
- fire and brimstone
- grave
- Hades
- 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
noun as in perdition
noun as in purgatory
Strongest match
Example Sentences
Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said Russia had different weapons, including the ability to "send all our enemies to fiery Gehenna", using a Hebrew term often translated as Hell.
The world is a strange, wavy place before your bleary eyes, too bright and too dim all at once, and that pounding in your head suggests the tortures of Gehenna itself.
Between its splashy opening scene — depicting a gruesome tribal ritual — and the credits' promise of appearances by genre favorites Lance Henriksen and Doug Jones, "Gehenna" misrepresents itself.
Carlin may keep his head down at first, replying “yes, sir” to every barked command, but he instinctively understands the laws that govern this white-walled Gehenna.
The hollering and the high-mindedness over, all that would be left would be another shabby little affair a la the Birmingham country club set, and a self-constructed private Gehenna with the latest Westinghouse appliances.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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