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hell

/hɛl/ verb C2
  1. To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell. (colloquial)
  2. To hurry, rush. (colloquial)
  3. To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion. (colloquial, intransitive) · He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.

He/she/it hells · Past helled · Past participle helled · -ing form helling

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Verb forms

Base form
hell
He/she/it
hells
Past
helled
Past participle
helled
-ing form
helling

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The Orientals are stronger than we are in cases of conscience, and, very prudently, have no hell—that is the point.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 533 · C1
Had a thunderbolt fallen at the feet of Dantès, or hell opened its yawning gulf before him, he could not have been more completely transfixed with horror than he was at the sound of these unexpected words.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 169 · C1
There is no devil in hell, Mr.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 43 · C1
‘But I have seen more than that,’ said he, ‘for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.’ So the drunken squires cursed the shepherd and rode onward.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 13 · C1

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