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inferno

[in-fur-noh, een-fer-naw]

noun

plural

infernos 
  1. hell; the infernal regions.

  2. a place or region that resembles hell.

    The ironworks was an inferno of molten steel and half-naked bodies.

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  3. (initial capital letter, italics)the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting hell and the suffering of the damned.



inferno

/ ɪˈɜːəʊ /

noun

  1. (sometimes capital) hell; the infernal region

  2. any place or state resembling hell, esp a conflagration

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Inferno

  1. The first section of The Divine Comedy, by Dante. Inferno is the Italian word for “hell.”

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By extension, an “inferno” is a hot and terrible place or condition.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of inferno1

1825–35; < Italian < Late Latin infernus hell, noun use of Latin infernus; infernal
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of inferno1

C19: from Italian, from Late Latin infernus hell
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But Israel has also widened the scope of its strikes to hit economic targets, turning vital parts of Iran’s fossil fuel infrastructure into infernos.

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After twenty minutes, the house was engulfed in an inferno before the frame gave way, collapsing into a smoking heap of charred debris.

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But Walker’s shop was reduced to rubble, the merchandise incinerated by the inferno.

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The company says the reenergization of an idle transmission line is now a leading theory of what sparked the inferno.

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Four months after an inferno ripped through Altadena, a time capsule of rubble and the shells of gutted shops and restaurants still line the business district of North Lake Avenue.

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