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Another word for limbo

Noun

  1. Abode of the (righteous) dead

    2. See also:

    oblivion

    hell

  2. Confinement

    3. See also:

    confinement

  3. Exclusion

    4. See also:

    exclusion

Idioms:

    in limbo

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Sentence Examples

  • The Pentactaea, at all events as it sprang from the brain of Semon, must pass to the limbo of mythological ancestors.

  • The number of chemicals which have been proposed from time to time for the purification of oils and fats is almost legion, and so long as the nature of oils and fats was little understood, a secret trade in oil-purifying chemicals flourished, With our present knowledge most of these chemicals may be removed into the limbo of useless things.

  • Matthew Paris said that he had a heart of wax; Dante relegated him to the limbo of ineffectual souls; and later generations have endorsed these scathing judgments.

  • limbo for some time to come.

  • limbo for a shorter period.

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