"sell one's soul to the Devil" meaning in English

See sell one's soul to the Devil in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: sells one's soul to the Devil [present, singular, third-person], selling one's soul to the Devil [participle, present], sold one's soul to the Devil [participle, past], sold one's soul to the Devil [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|sell<,,sold> one's soul to the Devil}} sell one's soul to the Devil (third-person singular simple present sells one's soul to the Devil, present participle selling one's soul to the Devil, simple past and past participle sold one's soul to the Devil)
  1. Synonym of sell one's soul Synonyms: sell one's soul [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-sell_one's_soul_to_the_Devil-en-verb-ALTnCltr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sells one's soul to the Devil",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selling one's soul to the Devil",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold one's soul to the Devil",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold one's soul to the Devil",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sell<,,sold> one's soul to the Devil"
      },
      "expansion": "sell one's soul to the Devil (third-person singular simple present sells one's soul to the Devil, present participle selling one's soul to the Devil, simple past and past participle sold one's soul to the Devil)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of sell one's soul"
      ],
      "id": "en-sell_one's_soul_to_the_Devil-en-verb-ALTnCltr",
      "links": [
        [
          "sell one's soul",
          "sell one's soul#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "sell one's soul"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sell one's soul to the Devil"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sells one's soul to the Devil",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selling one's soul to the Devil",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold one's soul to the Devil",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold one's soul to the Devil",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sell<,,sold> one's soul to the Devil"
      },
      "expansion": "sell one's soul to the Devil (third-person singular simple present sells one's soul to the Devil, present participle selling one's soul to the Devil, simple past and past participle sold one's soul to the Devil)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of sell one's soul"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sell one's soul",
          "sell one's soul#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "sell one's soul"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sell one's soul to the Devil"
}

Download raw JSONL data for sell one's soul to the Devil meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.