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hellfires

hellfires is the plural of hellfire.

Meaning of hellfire

Noun

hellfire (countable and uncountable, plural hellfires)

  1. (uncountable) The fire of Hell.
    • The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 59
  2. (uncountable) Fire produced by the Devil, or a similar supernatural creature connected to Hell.
  3. (broadly, countable) A fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity.

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Questions about hellfires

What is hellfires the plural of?
Hellfires is the plural of hellfire.

Words near hellfires in the dictionary

  1. Hellewells
  2. hellfare
  3. hellfire
  4. Hellfire Club
  5. Hellfire Clubs
  6. hellfires
  7. hellgramite
  8. hellgramites
  9. hellgrammite
  10. hellgrammites
  11. hellhole

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