Inferno
noun
A very large and dangerous fire.
The forest quickly turned into an inferno when the wildfire spread.
Often appears as...
- wildfire inferno
- house inferno
noun
A place or situation of great suffering in intensity or destructiveness.
The battlefield was an inferno of explosions and gunfire.
Often appears as...
- war inferno
- emotional inferno
noun
Hell as a place of eternal fire in some religions.
The sinner was cast into the inferno for his misdeeds.
Often appears as...
- cast into inferno
- descend into inferno
Usage tips
Disapproving
Religious
noun
A very large and dangerous fire.
The forest quickly turned into an inferno when the wildfire spread.
Often appears as...
- wildfire inferno
- house inferno
noun
A place or situation of great suffering in intensity or destructiveness.
The battlefield was an inferno of explosions and gunfire.
Often appears as...
- war inferno
- emotional inferno
noun
Hell as a place of eternal fire in some religions.
The sinner was cast into the inferno for his misdeeds.
Often appears as...
- cast into inferno
- descend into inferno
Usage tips
Disapproving
Religious
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Indicated
Use 'inferno' to emphasize the uncontrollable power and vastness of a fire.
The warehouse became an inferno within minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Used Literally
'Inferno' is often used to describe actual fires, less commonly for small or controlled ones.
Firefighters battled the inferno throughout the night.
Pro Tip 3/3High Impact
The word 'inferno' conveys urgency and danger, suitable for high-stakes situations.
Escape routes were blocked by the raging inferno.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Indicated
Use 'inferno' to emphasize the uncontrollable power and vastness of a fire.
The warehouse became an inferno within minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Used Literally
'Inferno' is often used to describe actual fires, less commonly for small or controlled ones.
Firefighters battled the inferno throughout the night.
Pro Tip 3/3High Impact
The word 'inferno' conveys urgency and danger, suitable for high-stakes situations.
Escape routes were blocked by the raging inferno.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Indicated
Use 'inferno' to emphasize the uncontrollable power and vastness of a fire.
The warehouse became an inferno within minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Used Literally
'Inferno' is often used to describe actual fires, less commonly for small or controlled ones.
Firefighters battled the inferno throughout the night.
Pro Tip 3/3High Impact
The word 'inferno' conveys urgency and danger, suitable for high-stakes situations.
Escape routes were blocked by the raging inferno.
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Could comets be the...
while some of the most distant may even come from a neighboring system. But sometimes the gravity from passing planets or stars pulls them toward our sun, beginning a journey that can take up to millions of years. As the frozen object travels further into the Solar System, the sun grows from a distant spark to an inferno,
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Katie Mack: The death of...
The start of the story is a familiar one. In the beginning, there was light. We know that because we can see it directly. The cosmos today is filled with low-energy background radiation left over from a time when the whole universe was an all-encompassing inferno.
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"The Hellhole of...
them back to addis ababa in this barren lifeless place he hopes they have discovered new secrets of earth to 'allah volcano not only how this incredible inferno was formed and how old it is but also about the formation of the world itself
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Where did Earth’s water...
has been around since close to the beginning of our universe. Oxygen entered the scene several hundred million years later after stars began to form. The massive pressure at the center of these fiery infernos was so great
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Venus 101 PIPE National...
Venus is known for its exceptional brightness in the night sky. But behind this facade is a world of storms and infernos unlike anywhere else in the solar system. Venus, the second planet from the sun,
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from the bottom of the inferno Carsten struggles to show maroons awesome force he suddenly realizes how to create that image but needs help he turns to his
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Origins of Oceans PIPE...
driving the climate and controlling the destiny of life itself but four and a half billion years ago when our planet was born it was just a molten inferno
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Rome in Flames PIPE...
inferno people were running out of their houses apartment buildings screaming looking for each other asking for help trying to help people who are
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Can you solve the river...
As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives. To escape the inferno,
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Nature's Mighty Power:...
thousands of tons of dry grass is enough to fuel a blazing inferno
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Could comets be the...
while some of the most distant may even come from a neighboring system. But sometimes the gravity from passing planets or stars pulls them toward our sun, beginning a journey that can take up to millions of years. As the frozen object travels further into the Solar System, the sun grows from a distant spark to an inferno,
Video examples
Katie Mack: The death of...
The start of the story is a familiar one. In the beginning, there was light. We know that because we can see it directly. The cosmos today is filled with low-energy background radiation left over from a time when the whole universe was an all-encompassing inferno.
Video examples
"The Hellhole of...
them back to addis ababa in this barren lifeless place he hopes they have discovered new secrets of earth to 'allah volcano not only how this incredible inferno was formed and how old it is but also about the formation of the world itself
Video examples
Where did Earth’s water...
has been around since close to the beginning of our universe. Oxygen entered the scene several hundred million years later after stars began to form. The massive pressure at the center of these fiery infernos was so great
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Venus 101 PIPE National...
Venus is known for its exceptional brightness in the night sky. But behind this facade is a world of storms and infernos unlike anywhere else in the solar system. Venus, the second planet from the sun,
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Through the Lens PIPE...
from the bottom of the inferno Carsten struggles to show maroons awesome force he suddenly realizes how to create that image but needs help he turns to his
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Origins of Oceans PIPE...
driving the climate and controlling the destiny of life itself but four and a half billion years ago when our planet was born it was just a molten inferno
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Rome in Flames PIPE...
inferno people were running out of their houses apartment buildings screaming looking for each other asking for help trying to help people who are
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Can you solve the river...
As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives. To escape the inferno,
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Nature's Mighty Power:...
thousands of tons of dry grass is enough to fuel a blazing inferno
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Italo Calvino
Italian Journalist
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
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Scilla Elworthy
American Activist
Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.
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Paul Newman
American Actor
The Sixties - I had to have my foot in everything then. I'm doing the same thing now but through an intermediary. You know. The food company. Maybe that's the way to go about it. You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.
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Octavian Paler
Romanian Writer
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.
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Arnold Bennett
English Novelist
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
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Cindy Sheehan
American Activist
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
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Anders Zorn
Swedish Artist
Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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Italo Calvino
Italian Journalist
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
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Scilla Elworthy
American Activist
Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.
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Paul Newman
American Actor
The Sixties - I had to have my foot in everything then. I'm doing the same thing now but through an intermediary. You know. The food company. Maybe that's the way to go about it. You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.
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Octavian Paler
Romanian Writer
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.
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Arnold Bennett
English Novelist
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
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Cindy Sheehan
American Activist
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
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Anders Zorn
Swedish Artist
Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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