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insane asylum
noun as in residence for people with mental illness
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The feeling that lunatics have taken over the insane asylum is what is driving much of the protests.
The film zooms in on the marquis (played by Geoffrey Rush) during his last years in an insane asylum.
In this city he encountered his former ranking officer, shorn of all his possessions, and just emerging from an insane asylum.
He was healed at Heilsberg, then locked up in an insane asylum at Stuttgart.
A typical example of this was Friederich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, who died a few years ago in an insane asylum.
In the early spring the buildings of the Insane Asylum will be ready for the reception of patients.
You see, an insane asylum is not like a prison; to make a good get-away from prison you have to have outside assistance.
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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to insane asylum, such as: mental health institution, psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, asylum, bedlam, and booby hatch.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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