(in many religions, often capitalized) A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.

(countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.

(countable) A place for gambling.

(figuratively) An extremely hot place.

(sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.

(obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

(colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

(no longer productive) Used to emphasize.

Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

(postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.

To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.

To hurry, rush.

(intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

(rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).

(rare) To pour.