[
US
/əˈsaɪɫəm/
]
[ UK /ɐsˈaɪləm/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈaɪləm/ ]
NOUN
- a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
- a shelter from danger or hardship
How To Use asylum In A Sentence
- An asylum seeker with insulin dependent diabetes has recently had her claim for asylum rejected.
- Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum.
- Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.
- His criticism was over the failure to deport foreign citizens after they had served a jail sentence and the backlog of failed asylum cases. Times, Sunday Times
- Asylum's MFP NanoIndenter is a true "instrumented" indenter and is the first AFM-based indenter that does not use cantilevers as part of the indenting mechanism. Nano Tech Wire
- The Home Office said at that time that it was minded to reject his application for political asylum.
- Victorian values might include slavery, children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack, as well as gin parlours and asylums.
- Another of his great-uncles was called Richard, whose son drowned as a small child and whose wife was so upset by the loss she ended up in a mental asylum.
- But the report dismisses claims that Leeds is swamped by asylum seekers who have access to a wide range of benefits.
- In addition to economic migration there are those fleeing war and persecution or seeking asylum. Times, Sunday Times