inferno

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English - Turkish
cehennem
cehenneme benzer yer/durum
cehennem gibi
{i} cehennem gibi yer
(isim) cehennem
ınferno
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English - English
Hell-like place or situation
A large fire
any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"
a very intense and uncontrolled fire
The infernal regions; hell
{i} hell; place of misery and torment, place which is like hell
If you refer to a fire as an inferno, you mean that it is burning fiercely and causing great destruction. Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno
Also used fig
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"
The first part of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
towering inferno
A tall fire, as of a building

he most compelling argument for avoiding Chungking Mansion is one of safety — it could be a towering inferno waiting to happen. Beth Reiber, Frommer's Hong Kong.

towering inferno
A powerful, untamed force

nyone saying now that humans are a towering inferno of irrationality ought to be challenged, and aggressively so. — Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past.

infernos
plural of inferno
inferno
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