Definitions for Devil
Devil
dev·il
Spelling: [dev-uh l]
IPA: /ˈdɛv əl/
Devil is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 64 anagrams from letters in Devil (deilv).
Definitions for Devil
noun
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Theology.
(sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan.
a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
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an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered person.
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a person who is very clever, energetic, reckless, or mischievous.
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a person, usually one in unfortunate or pitiable circumstances:
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Also called printer's devil. Printing. a young worker below the level of apprentice in a printing office.
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any of various mechanical devices, as a machine for tearing rags, a machine for manufacturing wooden screws, etc.
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Nautical. (in deck or hull planking) any of various seams difficult to caulk because of form or position.
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any of various portable furnaces or braziers used in construction and foundry work.
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the devil, (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.):
Idioms
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between the devil and the deep (blue) sea, between two undesirable alternatives; in an unpleasant dilemma.
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devil of a, extremely difficult or annoying; hellish:
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give the devil his due, to give deserved credit even to a person one dislikes:
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go to the devil,
to fail completely; lose all hope or chance of succeeding.
to become depraved.
(an expletive expressing annoyance, disgust, impatience, etc.)
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let the devil take the hindmost, to leave the least able or fortunate persons to suffer adverse consequences; leave behind or to one's fate:
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play the devil with, to ruin completely; spoil:
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raise the devil,
to cause a commotion or disturbance.
to celebrate wildly; revel.
to make an emphatic protest or take drastic measures.
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the devil to pay, trouble to be faced; mischief in the offing:
verb (used with object)
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to annoy; harass; pester:
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to tear (rags, cloth, etc.) with a devil.
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Cookery. to prepare (food, usually minced) with hot or savory seasoning:
Origin of Devil
before 900; Middle English devel, Old English dēofol Late Latin diabolus Greek diábolos Satan (Septuagint, NT), literally, slanderer (noun), slanderous (adj.), verbid of diabállein to assault
Examples for Devil
It's a pity it wasn't the devil himself instead of his fish!
And, the devil of it, that love increasing with her—what shall I call it?
The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.
A misfit according to his mother, he reportedly told a friend the devil was after him.
He says certain books, and even scary Halloween horror movies, tempt people to the devil.
I can look any man in the face and tell him to go to the devil.
And you forget that—that devil—suppose she's as good as her threat?
The West would be wise to think of Putin as the devil it knows.
For both the possessed and the priest-practitioner, driving out the devil can be dangerous to mind, body and spirit.
Can we imagine Stephen Vincent Benet writing The devil and Barbara Boxer?