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Word entry · 4 letters

hell

Best crossword clue

"Place of torment"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hɛl/Part of speech nounSorted ehllStarts with HEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. noisy and unrestrained mischief

Word origin

From Middle English hel, hell, helle, hælle, from Old English hel, hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“hell, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). First attested in c. 725.

Used in a sentence

  • May you rot in hell!
  • Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
  • Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

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