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inferno(dictionary)
Dante's Inferno(dictionary)

inferno (oh)



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[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Italian; Origin: 'hell', from Late Latin infernus; INFERNAL]
an extremely large and dangerous fire - used especially in news reports
raging/blazing inferno
::Within minutes the house had become a raging inferno.
literary when someone has very strong feelings that are difficult to control
::She was desperately trying to calm the inferno raging within her.

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