insane asylum

NOUN
  1. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
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  • Her stepmother wants the family's boarding house for herself - and is prepared to have her lying stepdaughter committed to an insane asylum to get it.
  • Bucke (1837-1902), an interesting character, rugged adventurer, medical doctor, and "alienist" (psychiatrist) helped set up an "insane asylum" in Canada with quite progressive "treatment" for its time. Unity of the universe
  • This could be a spotless home, a hospital, a studio set, a dreamscape or an insane asylum.
  • Late one night at the insane asylum one inmate shouted, " I am Napoleon! ".
  • when hitler started the pracitice of euthenasia he started with his own people in the insane asylums, and the term insane back then is not what we consider it to be now.. a kid with ADD or midly slow could be "put down".. all part of the "not fit to work not fit for life" campiagn. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • With the manfly dead and his wife, Patricia Owens, about to be carted off to an insane asylum for his murder, Price and police inspector Herbert Marshall make the ghastly eleventh hour discovery of a flyman caught in a spiderweb in the garden. 31 Screams: Al Hedison
  • Dense, ridiculously overplotted and painfully overlong, this gruesome thriller set in a fogbound insane asylum is incomprehensible and fatally flawed, but having said all of that, I will also say this: It never seems anything less than the work of a skillful film buff. All Stories | The New York Observer
  • The struggling public library was quartered in an 18th-century stone building that had been, in the course of its 185 years, an almshouse, an orphanage, and an insane asylum.
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