hellfire.

1. The flames associated with hell and punishment in religious imagery or belief.

2. A fiercely destructive onslaught or attack, especially intense gunfire in figurative usage.

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Words that belong together

• threaten hellfire
• visions of hellfire

On the page

The sermon threatened hellfire while the listeners watched the sealed door.

Visions of hellfire filled the account without settling whether its narrator believed them.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.