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Definition

a very intense and uncontrolled fire

or:

a place that is hell-like (terribly hot or full of suffering)

The elevator door opened to reveal an inferno.

inferno = a very intense and uncontrolled fire

like a scene from Dante's "Inferno".
Then again—this was the second circle—it was like the Inferno—if neither he nor Mordred had really set the misery in motion, who had been the cause?
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
The animals had fled just in time to save themselves from the inferno!
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
I had managed to resist, the inferno with a certain integrity, but when I felt so much support, I broke down.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
White-hot flames burst from his throat and chest and stomach, sweeping over his body like an inferno.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
A torch was thrown onto the bubbling pitch, and an orange pillar of greasy flames roared up in the opening, engulfing the Urgals in an inferno.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
Then, after I discovered the inferno you were in, I got you assigned to my unit.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Especially when the elevator was silent and shut and the ninth floor was an inferno and the fire kept pouring in the windows.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
Hurt Village had become an inferno of gangs and drugs and crime.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
The inferno blazed behind him and his face was covered in soot and blood.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
Jason didn't see how even fireproof Leo could survive in that inferno, but he had to hope.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
Rage billowed in her chest, as if there were flames inside her that needed only fury and grief to blaze into an inferno.
Kass Morgan -- The 100
Queen Alysanne and Lady of Silk, still locked together, were a ranging green inferno, drifting downriver and dragging pieces of Lady's Shame.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
After describing the inferno, the paper stated: "The fire broke out on ....
Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire
And here, in this inferno of luggage, was White Fang deserted by the master.
Jack London -- White Fang
'If you and I have survived this inferno for over five years,' he replied, 'it's obviously God's will for us to live.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
Inevitably it was he whom I saw burning in the roaring inferno of eternal damnation.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

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