gehenna
/ɡəˈhɛnə/
noun
- A place or state of great suffering, torment, or punishment.
- The long drought turned the farmland into a gehenna of dust and despair.
- She described the final exam week as pure gehenna.
- For the prisoners of war, the camp was a living gehenna.
- In some religious traditions, a place of fiery punishment after death; hell.
- The preacher warned that sinners would be cast into gehenna.
- In Jewish apocalyptic literature, gehenna is a place of purification and judgment.
- Ancient texts often describe gehenna as a valley of fire where the wicked are punished.