Synonyms:
purgatory
Meaning: a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse"
Usage examples
We were left in this domestic purgatory for days, sometimes for weeks together.
Nevertheless, after I went to bed, this idea of punishment and Purgatory came back on me crushingly.
"As I understand it," Jake concluded, "it will be a matter of years to pray his soul out of Purgatory, and right now he's in torment."
Then came a pause: he was no more descending; for a time of indeterminate duration, an age of anguish, he seemed to float without motion, suspended in frigid purgatory.
'Now you are in the flames of purgatory, to be cleansed and purified for life everlasting', said the Master Thief; and with that he went his way, and took all the gold which the Priest had laid together in his dining-room.