Tartarus

noun

Definition of Tartarusnext
as in underworld

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  1. underworld
  2. netherworld
  3. inferno
  4. purgatory
Noun
  • Set against the backdrop of Corsica in 1995, the narrative follows the father-daughter pair as they’re forced to flee when violence erupts in the criminal underworld.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
  • As the title indicates, the story centers around Hit-Monkey (Fred Tatasciore), a snow monkey intent on taking out the Tokyo underworld with the help of his mentor, Bryce Fowler (Jason Sudeikis).
    Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of underworld
Noun
  • Below that is the Futures tour, tennis’s vast netherworld of more than 2,000 true prospects and hopeless dreamers.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 8 July 2024
  • Tells Real-Life Tales of the Country's Most Notorious Motorcycle Gang 'Dune: Part Two' Is Bigger, Bolder — and Yes, Even Better — Than Part One Lyons’ book also utilized a long, taped conversation with Kathy Bauer, the real-life Benny’s wife, as a dispatch from this dirty-fingernail netherworld.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
Definition of netherworld
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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
Definition of inferno
Noun
  • The idea of purgatory has always been catnip to playwrights, going back centuries.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
  • There is no Heaven or hell, just death and purgatory, over and over again.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of purgatory
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