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Hell

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.

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Devilment 76% connected

Deviltry.

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Devilry 76% connected

Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.

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Deviltry 76% connected

Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry.

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Mischief 76% connected

Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamit…

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Mischief-making 76% connected

Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels.

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Rascality 76% connected

The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

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Region 76% connected

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general…

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Roguery 76% connected

The life of a vargant.

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Trouble 76% connected

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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Gehenna 76% connected

The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarde…

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Tartarus 76% connected

The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punish…

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Blaze 92% connected

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

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Hades 92% connected

The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.

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Perdition 92% connected

Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.

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Pit 92% connected

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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Sheol 92% connected

The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.

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Underworld 92% connected

The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.

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Heaven 94% connected

The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place…

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Heaven 94% connected

The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place…

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