"living hell" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: living hells [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} living hell (countable and uncountable, plural living hells)
  1. A continuing state of extreme pain, punishment, suffering, or torment with no seeming chance of reprieve. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (continuing state of extreme pain, punishment or torment): door de hel gaan (Dutch), die Hölle durchleben [idiomatic] (German), 生き地獄 (ikijigoku) (alt: いきじごく) (Japanese)

Inflected forms

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