Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rot in hell

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: rot in hell
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To suffer a fate worse than death.

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rot, in, hell.

Example Sentences

"This is one dangerous bastard. I hope he rots in hell."
"They got him, and they're going to hang him. I hope he rots in hell."
"Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government."
"I have often wondered why no one ever asks about our earliest ancestors. […] Are we supposed to think that those generations of the human species are rotting in hell, just because they didn't have Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or Buddhism"

Inflected Forms

rots in hell (present, singular) rotting in hell (participle, present) rotted in hell (participle, past) rotted in hell (past)

Synonyms

burn in hell go to hell RIH

Questions

What does rot in hell mean?: To suffer a fate worse than death.

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