Calamity and Hell

Calamity

Calamity noun - A sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction.

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Hell and calamity are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hell" instead a noun "Calamity".

Nearby Words: calamitous, calamitously

Hell noun - A situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness.

Usage example: picking cotton under the hot summer sun was hell

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Calamity and hell are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Calamity" instead a noun "Hell".

Nearby Words: hellish, hellion

good	good calamity	good hell
utter	utter calamity	utter hell
single	single calamity	single hell
actual	actual calamity	actual hell
Other adjectives: big, terrible.

So do Merrick, Cy Tolliver, Calamity Jane (albeit very dark purple)...hell, the show practically runs off the stuff.

Source: Purple Prose
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, ironically, subverts the hell out of this — each and every fight that the players play can not only result in a character's death, but can be argued to be canonically possible as well.

Source: Set Swords to Stun
Dragged Off to Hell: When Death Master, a lich, uses up too much magic and loses the Calamity Stone he was using to augment himself, a rift opens up and a bunch of demons take him away, saying that he has abused the powers of darkness for the last time.

Source: Webcomic / Bad Guy High

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