Asylum and Escape

Asylum

Asylum noun - A place where insane people are cared for.

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Escape and asylum are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Escape" instead a noun "Asylum".

Escape noun - The act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement.

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Asylum and escape are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Asylum" instead a noun "Escape".

clean	clean asylum	clean escape
special	special asylum	special escape
original	original asylum	original escape
actual	actual asylum	actual escape
Other adjectives: entire, real, criminal, personal, temporary, literal, eponymous.

You start off abandoned to rot forever in an asylum and escape to a country where everyone normal died long ago.

Source: Video Game / Dark Souls I aka: Dark Souls 1
Outlast concludes with the protagonist failing to escape Mount Massive Asylum, instead becoming the new vessel of the Walrider.

Source: Downer Ending / Video Games
XIII: In a particularly creepy instance of the trope, you must escape from an insane asylum.

Source: No-Gear Level

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