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synonyms for inferno

  • purgatory
  • Hades
  • blazes
  • hellfire
  • netherworld
  • underworld
  • bottomless pit
  • everlasting fire
  • fire and brimstone
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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inferno, such as: purgatory, blazes, hades, hellfire, netherworld, and underworld.

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How to use inferno in a sentence

To ensure that the robot’s sensors still function in the heat of an inferno, the Hydra even has sprinklers to cool the sensors.
THIS HELPFUL TANK-LIKE ROBOT FIGHTS FIRES, NOT PEOPLEROB VERGERJULY 9, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
Stitching the features together could show us the steps that turned the planet into an uninhabitable inferno.
THESE SCIENTISTS SPENT DECADES PUSHING NASA TO GO BACK TO VENUS. NOW THEY’RE ON A HOT STREAK.CORINNE IOZZIOJUNE 29, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
Instead of an inferno, the infections will be more like embers, scattered in communities here and there, and harder to find.
WHEN AND HOW YOU CAN TEST YOURSELF FOR COVID-19 AT HOMEALICE PARKAPRIL 27, 2021TIME
As Curdin moves nearer to the inferno he hears a cry for help coming from inside the building.
‘MUNDAUN’ OFFERS THE RARE CHANCE TO SMOKE A PIPE WHILE TALKING TO THE SEVERED HEAD OF A GOATCHRISTOPHER BYRDMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The box immediately melts into flames, leaving the body defenseless against the inferno.
HOW TO BE BETTER AT DEATH (EP. 450)MARIA KONNIKOVAFEBRUARY 4, 2021FREAKONOMICS
Throw in a lame-duck President, wildly differing approaches by the states and a pervasive sense of quarantine fatigue, and the wildfire could easily become an inferno.
THE U.S. COVID-19 OUTBREAK IS WORSE THAN IT’S EVER BEEN. WHY AREN’T WE ACTING LIKE IT?JAMIE DUCHARMENOVEMBER 19, 2020TIME
The infernos come on the heels of several of the most destructive and deadly fire seasons in California history.
YES, CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY FUELING CALIFORNIA’S MASSIVE FIRESJAMES TEMPLEAUGUST 20, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Those fire-fueled thunderstorms launched between 300,000 and 900,000 metric tons of smoke into the stratosphere, which was more than any seen from a previous inferno.
SMOKE FROM AUSTRALIAN FIRES ROSE HIGHER INTO THE OZONE LAYER THAN EVER BEFOREMARIA TEMMINGJUNE 15, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Coronado inwardly cursed himself for venturing into this inferno, the haunting place of devils in human shape.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
It was such an abyss as no artist has ever hinted, excepting Doré in his picturings of Dante's "Inferno."
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
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WORDS RELATED TO INFERNO

  • blaze
  • bonfire
  • burning
  • flaming
  • holocaust
  • inferno
  • rapid oxidation
  • up in smoke
  • wildfire
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