Meaning

3 senses
  1. (emphatic, intensifier)In a manner that uses all of the strength, speed, or effort that a person can summon.

    You'd better run like hell!

  2. Used ironically to express the opposite of one's intentions

    Me do the washing up? Like hell I will!

    чёрта с дваčórta s dva

  3. Bad or badly.

    You look like hell!

    It stank like hell down there!

Examples

21 sentences
  1. So what's the weather like in hell?

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  2. Sometimes I feel like saying, "To hell with it all."

    Іноді мені хочеться послати все до дідька.

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  3. It is often said that summer in Japan is like hell.

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  4. It hurts like hell.

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  5. You look like hell.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
expressing the opposite of one's intentions:
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