Asylum
Asylum noun - A place where insane people are cared for.
Usage example: volunteered to play piano for the residents of the state asylum on weekends
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Synonyms for Asylum
Bedlam
Bedlam noun - A place where insane people are cared for.
Usage example: French physician Philippe Pinel was instrumental in the transformation of bedlams from filthy hellholes to well-ordered, humane institutions
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- institution and asylum
- institution and bedlam
- sanatorium and asylum
- sanatorium and bedlam
- mental hospital and asylum
- mental hospital and bedlam
- mental institution and asylum
- mental institution and bedlam
- insane asylum and asylum
- insane asylum and bedlam
- booby hatch and asylum
- booby hatch and bedlam
- funny farm and asylum
- funny farm and bedlam
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Bedlam House: "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", where the protagonist is locked away in an insane asylum.
Source: Music / Master of Puppets - Bedlam Heights, a former asylum being converted to an apartment complex in Bedlam.
Source: Haunted Headquarters -
Bedlam House: The asylum in Sunnyside has literally been taken over by the inmates.
Source: Video Game / Grand Theft Auto 2
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