Gehenna

noun

gi-ˈhe-nə How to pronounce Gehenna (audio)
Definition of Gehennanext
1
as in nightmare
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness the depression that has enshrouded her since the death of her husband is a Gehenna from which she may never be released

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2
as in hell
the place of punishment for the wicked after death in a fire-and-brimstone sermon, the evangelist warned those assembled that they faced the fires of Gehenna if they failed to repent

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  1. nightmare
  2. hell
  3. agony
  4. inferno
  5. torment
  6. misery
  7. horror
  8. torture
Noun
  • While Verstappen has continued to fight at the front despite going three months without a win, Sergio Perez’s nightmare season will in all likelihood cost Red Bull a shot at the title.
    Dan Cancian, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The phrase encapsulates the unwavering hope of the Cuban people that their decades-long nightmare under Fidel Castro (and now his successors) will one day end because darkness eventually always yields to light.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of nightmare
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  • Not-so-happy couple Anne (Synnøve Karlsen) and Patrick (Luke Norris) go on the ultimate hell ride with a gregarious, over-sharing driver (Nick Frost, living it up here).
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • So, the ex-lovers strike a deal: If Agatha can get Billy to willingly turn himself in and let Rio kill him, then Rio will stop pursuing Agatha and making her life hell.
    Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of hell
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  • Compared to the agony and the ecstasy on display in McQueen’s extraordinary Small Axe compilation, which celebrated the United Kingdom’s diaspora culture while forcing the country to reckon with its institutionally racist past, this might seem like weak tea.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The movie One of the darkest true stories on this list, An American Crime never undersells or soft-pedals the ceaseless agony of Likens’ ordeal.
    Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of agony
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  • In Nickel Boys, the inferno is called the Nickel Academy and the story zooms in on a friendship between two young men, studious and hopeful Elwood, played by Ethan Herisse, and Brandon Wilson’s more cynical Turner.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024
  • This is important because any sort of flaw in a battery could lead to an inferno, says Venkat Srinivasan, who studies batteries and directs the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science at the US’s Argonne National Laboratory.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2024
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  • His ’70s peak was also the peak of the ’70s, but putting masterpieces like the first two Godfather movies, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now in preferential order is a torment, because they could be ranked differently on any other day.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Hoult is the center of the film and never overplays the torment roiling inside.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of torment
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  • The Democratic Party should be put out of its misery.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • While a fair number of New Yorkers may be at home alone tonight, watching prestige-TV reruns and trying to enter a fugue state, plenty of us plan to lean into the misery (or joy) of watching the election results in numbers.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of misery
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  • Next month, her upcoming film The Man in the White Van transitions her into the darker horror genre and out of the spooky childhood stardom.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • That same feature improves immersion in horror games and online gaming.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
Definition of horror
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  • For some women, anything that comes after such a torture would pale in comparison.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The trials swept to North America as well – where, most famously, 19 were executed in Salem, Massachusetts, with more dying under torture and investigation.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of torture
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