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RIH

RIH is the initialism of rot in hell.

RIH is the initialism of rest in heaven.

Meaning of rot in hell

Verb

rot in hell (third-person singular simple present rots in hell, present participle rotting in hell, simple past and past participle rotted in hell)

  1. (figuratively, idiomatic) To suffer a fate worse than death.
    • This is one dangerous bastard. I hope he rots in hell.2012, Paul Carson, Scalpel, Random House, →ISBN, page 200
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rot, in, hell.
    • I have often wondered why no one ever asks about our earliest ancestors. […] Are we supposed to think that those generations of the human species are rotting in hell, just because they didn't have Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or Buddhism2015, Frank K. McGarry, To Hell with Terrorism, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 54

Phrases with RIH

Questions about RIH

What is RIH the initialism of?
RIH is the initialism of rot in hell.

Words near RIH in the dictionary

  1. rigwiddie
  2. rigwiddies
  3. rigwiddy
  4. rigwoodie
  5. rigwoodies
  6. RIH
  7. Riha
  8. Rihanna
  9. Rihas
  10. riichi
  11. riichi mahjong

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Adapted from Wiktionary: RIH (page history and authors); rot in hell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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