"raise hell" meaning in English

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      "form": "raising hell",
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      "form": "raised hell",
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          "text": "Near-synonyms: (disturb loudly) raise the dead, wake the dead"
        },
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          "ref": "2013, Jason Isbell, Super 8:",
          "text": "Don't want to sleep yet, buddy it's a good bet I'll raise more hell than you.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of \"the Jackass Moment\"”, in Media+Environment:",
          "text": "A segment where several cast members in panda suits raise skateboarding hell in the streets of Tokyo.",
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        "To cause a considerable disturbance."
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        "(idiomatic) To cause a considerable disturbance."
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        {
          "word": "raise the devil"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise Cain"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise hob"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise the roof"
        },
        {
          "word": ";"
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        {
          "word": "stir shit"
        }
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
          "word": "alkaa riehua"
        },
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "qahar ḍhānā",
          "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
          "word": "क़हर ढाना"
        },
        {
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
          "word": "bajt kever"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
          "word": "balhézik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
          "word": "balhét csap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
          "word": "fare il diavolo a quattro"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "buditʹ lixo",
          "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
          "word": "будить лихо"
        }
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          "ref": "2022 February 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Mounting opposition to IRP”, in RAIL, number 950, page 3:",
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          "word": "raise the devil"
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        {
          "word": "raise Cain"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise hob"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise the roof"
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        {
          "word": ";"
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          "word": "give someone hell"
        },
        {
          "word": ";"
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        {
          "word": "throw a fit"
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  "word": "raise hell"
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      "form": "raises hell",
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      "form": "raising hell",
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    {
      "form": "raised hell",
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      "form": "raised hell",
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        },
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          "text": "Don't want to sleep yet, buddy it's a good bet I'll raise more hell than you.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of \"the Jackass Moment\"”, in Media+Environment:",
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        "(idiomatic) To cause a considerable disturbance."
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        {
          "word": "raise the devil"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise Cain"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise hob"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise the roof"
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          "word": "stir shit"
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          "word": "raise the devil"
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          "word": "raise Cain"
        },
        {
          "word": "raise hob"
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        {
          "word": "raise the roof"
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          "word": ";"
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          "word": "give someone hell"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
      "word": "alkaa riehua"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "qahar ḍhānā",
      "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
      "word": "क़हर ढाना"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
      "word": "bajt kever"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
      "word": "balhézik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
      "word": "balhét csap"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
      "word": "fare il diavolo a quattro"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "buditʹ lixo",
      "sense": "to cause a disturbance",
      "word": "будить лихо"
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  "word": "raise hell"
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