Word Definition

Hell

  1. A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
  2. A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
  3. The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
  4. A gambling house.
  5. A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
  6. The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
  7. To overwhelm.