{"def":{"short":"to incarcerate in eternal torment","long":["the name of the subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to Gehenna of the Jews","to thrust down to Tartarus, to hold captive in Tartarus"]},"deriv":"from Τάρταρος (the deepest abyss of Hades)","pronun":{"ipa":"tɑr.tɑˈro.o","ipa_mod":"tɑr.tɑˈrow.ow","sbl":"tartaroō","dic":"tahr-ta-ROH-oh","dic_mod":"tahr-ta-ROH-oh"}}