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1. Any place of pain and turmoil
   "the inferno of the engine room"
   - hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits
    
2. A very intense and uncontrolled fire
   - conflagration

1. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
   "Inferno is paved with good intentions"
   - Hell, perdition, infernal region, nether region, pit

Derived forms: infernos

See also: infernal

Type of: fictitious place, fire, imaginary place, mythical place, part, region

Encyclopedia: Inferno