asylum
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- noun
- /əˈsaɪləm/
- Archaic
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manicomio
- Many stories circulate about the lives of those admitted to the asylum in the early 1900s.
- insane asylum
- lunatic asylum
- confined to asylums
This reads like obviously he's in an asylum, right?
- This reads like obviously he's in an asylum, right?
- He'd come when we were shooting the lunatic asylum.
- But yeah, I think imagine if like same day back to the mental asylum.
- Sending someone to Jackson just means sending him to the lunatic asylum.
- It's an asylum really, where they contained him.
- And he also struggles understanding the difference between an insane asylum and those seeking asylum.
- And at Yale Law School, as it many other law schools, the lunatics are running the asylum and the administrators are absolutely feckless.
- And yes, Maggie, I said he was stupid because he thinks that because Hannibal Lecter was in a sane asylum that says that's the same thing as people seeking asylum.
- Cantor, yeah, Didn't that Leopold Kronecker, Yes, who ended up driving him basically into an insane asylum where he died.
- Sarah Paulson, the cool cousin who got out, who comes back to let everyone know that there is an exit out of this, you know, this this insane asylum.
- And we also have seen, as the DHS has confirmed what Trump said, which is that places like Venezuela are emptying out their prisons and their insane asylums.
Examples
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The inmate takes over the asylum.
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They called the asylum to take me away!
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That place is an insane asylum this time of year.
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The Vatican had to lock her up in an asylum.
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Did I tell you about the time I spent in the insane asylum?
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Is this an insane asylum?
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Uncle Billy, he learns, has been in the insane asylum since he lost the business.
Fiction book (1995) -
The vision of New York as one big lunatic asylum had already been forgotten.
Fiction book (1998) -
Before beginning her position at the asylum in 1885, Emma Dunbar attended the Cherokee Teacher's Institute.
Academic text (2010) -
The Cherokee Orphan Asylum was truly a public institution and an expression of Cherokee nationalism.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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5.6
A hospital for people with mental illness or intellectual disability who need long-term care
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3.6
A hospital that cares for people who have serious problems with their mind
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2.8
A hospital where doctors help people with problems of the mind
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3.0
A hospital that treats people with mental health problems
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A hospital where people with mental illness lived and got treatment in the past
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6.1
A hospital for people who cannot look after themselves because of mental illness
Idioms
- Informal
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9.9
A situation where people who should not lead control things and cause chaos
Compounds
- Slur
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9.9
A hospital for people with serious mental health problems, now an old and offensive word
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Asylum was later used for places that cared for people with mental illness, so it also came to mean a psychiatric hospital, especially in the past. That's why older books often speak of patients being sent to an asylum.