Any place of pain and turmoil:
— The inferno of the engine room.

synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits.

Roget 982: hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon^†, Domdaniel; jahannan^†, sheol^†.    hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies.    purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss.    [Mythological hell] Tartarus, Hades, Avernus [Lat.], Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron^†, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.    Pluto, Rhadamanthus^†, Erebus [Lat.]; Tophet.    ... show more

A very intense and uncontrolled fire.

synonym: conflagration.

Dutch: vlammenzee, vuurzee
Polish: pożar, ogień

Christianity The abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment.

synonyms: Hell, infernal region, nether region, perdition, pit.

Dutch: verderf, eeuwige, hel, verdoemenis