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Definition of inferno in English Turkish dictionary
- cehennem
- cehenneme benzer yer/durum
- cehennem gibi
- {i} cehennem gibi yer
- (isim) cehennem
- ınferno
- cehennem
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Definition of inferno in English English dictionary
- 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
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inferno
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in·fer·noTurkish pronunciation
înfırnōSynonyms
blazes, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, hades, hellfire, netherworld, purgatory, underworldPronunciation
/ənˈfərnō/ /ɪnˈfɜrnoʊ/
Etymology
() From Italian inferno (“hell”) Latin infernus (“of the lower regions”), inferna (“the lower regions”); see infernal. The meaning "big fire" came as a figurative use from the traditional idea of hellfire,Resimler
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