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Definition of inferno in English: infernonounPlural infernos ɪnˈfəːnəʊɪnˈfərnoʊ 1A large fire that is dangerously out of control. 烈火 the inferno had swept through the city Example sentencesExamples - Dozens of local residents rang the fire brigade as the inferno ripped through the offices and warehouse area.
- Within approximately 15 minutes, firefighters managed to control the inferno.
- A police helicopter also circled the site, sending images of the inferno down to fire crews to help them tackle the blaze.
- Officers spent nearly three hours battling with the inferno before they could bring the fire under control.
- By this time the fire had become an inferno and tyres were exploding around them.
- We certainly didn't want to turn a fire into an inferno, but we were sitting in a burning jet.
- When she glanced down at the hole, the whole bottom floor was a burning inferno, and the flames were jumping up.
- It took four hours for 17 firefighters and officers to control the inferno and carry out salvage work on the 15 by eight metre room.
- And so we poured gas down every cavernous hole we found, and then exploded them with torches, setting the caves on fire like raw infernos.
- More than 60 fire fighters tackled an inferno at a former tannery in Otley last night.
- The sound of helicopters and sirens could be heard as the emergency services turned out to bring what was a raging inferno under control.
- These fires were not catastrophic infernos but rather a life-giving natural event for the forest.
- What was once a calm working environment had become a burning inferno in just one burst of flame.
- It's an explosive mix that has turned normal fires into ferocious infernos.
- The worst inferno during that spate swept into the national capital of Canberra, where it razed 500 homes and killed four people.
- Crews fought the flames for 15 minutes before getting the inferno under control but had to remain at the scene for 90 minutes.
- Firefighters fought for over an hour to control the inferno in the city's center.
- A huge inferno swept through the scene and raged for several days.
- The cool, moist ocean breezes replaced the hotter and drier Santa Ana wind that had whipped fires into raging infernos at the weekend.
- Breathing apparatus, three jets, foam and two ground monitors were used to get the inferno under control.
Synonyms blaze, conflagration, holocaust, firestorm 2Hell (with reference to Dante's Divine Comedy). 地狱（典出但丁的《神曲》） Example sentencesExamples - It's hell, the real thing, the genuine Inferno.
- As we have already seen, Dante's guide through Inferno or Hell, was the Roman poet and pagan, Virgil.
- That would be like asking Dante to traverse his Inferno again.
- Dante put him in the 9th Circle of Hell in The Inferno because he was the first one to put his own face on the money he produced.
- This guy appeared among the enchanters in the eighth circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno, so he must have been almighty.
- 2.1 A place or situation that is too hot, chaotic, or noisy.
〈喻〉酷热的场所；混乱的场面；喧闹的地方 the inferno of the Friday evening rush hour 星期五晚上交通高峰时的混乱场面。 Example sentencesExamples - For Xi'an Coy Manh, the explosion was as if she'd suddenly been cast back into the childhood inferno, the terrible war, that consumed her homeland, Vietnam.
- Never have more than one person working on the same function, or even class if possible, because combining code will become a hellish inferno of terrible pain.
OriginMid 19th century: from Italian, from Christian Latin infernus (see infernal). In the early 14th century the Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy, describing his journey through hell and purgatory and finally to paradise. The description of hell in particular, the ‘Inferno’, had a lasting impact on the European imagination. The word came to mean ‘hell’ and then ‘any fire raging out of control’. Italian inferno comes from Latin infernus ‘below, subterranean’, which is also the source of infernal (Late Middle English), and is related to inferior (Late Middle English).
RhymesBrno, journo, Salerno, Sterno Definition of inferno in US English: infernonouninˈfərnōɪnˈfərnoʊ 1A large fire that is dangerously out of control. 烈火 Example sentencesExamples - A police helicopter also circled the site, sending images of the inferno down to fire crews to help them tackle the blaze.
- Breathing apparatus, three jets, foam and two ground monitors were used to get the inferno under control.
- Officers spent nearly three hours battling with the inferno before they could bring the fire under control.
- It's an explosive mix that has turned normal fires into ferocious infernos.
- Crews fought the flames for 15 minutes before getting the inferno under control but had to remain at the scene for 90 minutes.
- The worst inferno during that spate swept into the national capital of Canberra, where it razed 500 homes and killed four people.
- The sound of helicopters and sirens could be heard as the emergency services turned out to bring what was a raging inferno under control.
- What was once a calm working environment had become a burning inferno in just one burst of flame.
- The cool, moist ocean breezes replaced the hotter and drier Santa Ana wind that had whipped fires into raging infernos at the weekend.
- By this time the fire had become an inferno and tyres were exploding around them.
- More than 60 fire fighters tackled an inferno at a former tannery in Otley last night.
- These fires were not catastrophic infernos but rather a life-giving natural event for the forest.
- We certainly didn't want to turn a fire into an inferno, but we were sitting in a burning jet.
- A huge inferno swept through the scene and raged for several days.
- Within approximately 15 minutes, firefighters managed to control the inferno.
- Firefighters fought for over an hour to control the inferno in the city's center.
- And so we poured gas down every cavernous hole we found, and then exploded them with torches, setting the caves on fire like raw infernos.
- When she glanced down at the hole, the whole bottom floor was a burning inferno, and the flames were jumping up.
- It took four hours for 17 firefighters and officers to control the inferno and carry out salvage work on the 15 by eight metre room.
- Dozens of local residents rang the fire brigade as the inferno ripped through the offices and warehouse area.
Synonyms blaze, conflagration, holocaust, firestorm 2Hell (with reference to Dante's Divine Comedy). 地狱（典出但丁的《神曲》） Example sentencesExamples - It's hell, the real thing, the genuine Inferno.
- That would be like asking Dante to traverse his Inferno again.
- Dante put him in the 9th Circle of Hell in The Inferno because he was the first one to put his own face on the money he produced.
- As we have already seen, Dante's guide through Inferno or Hell, was the Roman poet and pagan, Virgil.
- This guy appeared among the enchanters in the eighth circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno, so he must have been almighty.
OriginMid 19th century: from Italian, from Christian Latin infernus (see infernal). |