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{
"Gehenna":{
"antonyms":[
"heaven",
"paradise"
],
"definitions":{
": a place or state of misery":[],
": hell sense 1a(2)":[]
},
"examples":[
"the depression that has enshrouded her since the death of her husband is a Gehenna from which she may never be released",
"in a fire-and-brimstone sermon, the evangelist warned those assembled that they faced the fires of Gehenna if they failed to repent"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin, from Greek Geenna , from Hebrew G\u0113' Hinn\u014dm , literally, valley of Hinnom":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"gi-\u02c8he-n\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"agony",
"hell",
"horror",
"misery",
"murder",
"nightmare",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062531",
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}