Meaning & use
gehenna
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A place or state of great suffering or torment, likened to hell.
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The battlefield had become a gehenna of smoke, noise, and fear.
Survivors described the burning city as a modern gehenna.
A note on using this word
Gehenna originally referred to a valley near Jerusalem associated with fire and destruction in religious texts, and is now used more broadly in literature for any hellish place.
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