English-French translations for hellish

• infernal
  C'est cet engrenage infernal que nous voyons se mettre en place aujourd'hui dans l'île. And today we are watching as this island is caught in the grip of the same hellish spiral.
  Monsieur le Président, nous assistons, impuissants, à la spirale infernale de la violence au Burundi. Mr President, we are helpless spectators of the hellish spiral of violence in Burundi.
  Il s' agit - et c' est un peu aussi le mythe de Sisyphe -, d' une montée et d' une descente infernale et sans fin qui menace d' user les forces, voire l' espoir de presque tout le monde. This is a hellish and never-ending rise and fall - and it is also a bit like the legend of Sisyphus - which threatens to sap the strength and even the hope of almost everyone.

Definition of hellish

• Causing pain, discomfort or distress

Examples

• I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

Related words

• hellion
• shelling
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• Hellifield
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• Hellingly