Asylum
Asylum noun - Something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger.
Usage example: the embassy serves as an asylum for that country's nationals in need of help
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- Interface Screw: When zapped by the electricity in the asylum, the screen will rapidly pulse while the effect is on.
Source: Video Game / Zork Nemesis -
Whenever the Keeper regenerates, the screen stutters and leaves brief after-images when Sebastian moves around (a similar effect happens in the Asylum when it's in its unsafe monochrome state).
Source: Video Game / The Evil Within - One episode has Peter and his friends accidently kill the hook-handed war veteran custodian of the local abandoned asylum after he scared them during a session of working on a horror screen play.
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Screen and Asylum. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/asylum/screen
Asylum & Screen. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/asylum/screen>.
Screen or Asylum. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/asylum/screen.
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