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(fam) madhouse (colloq)

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(n.) = lunatic asylum, madhouse, bedlam

Ex. The writer argues that the steady growth in lunatic asylums in early-19th-century British India played an important role in the making of colonial society.

Ex. In the book, Romania is a madhouse filled with the handicapped, deaf mutes, and stutterers.

Ex. In subsequent years, Bethlem became 'Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.

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(fam) madhouse (colloq)

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(n.) = lunatic asylum, madhouse, bedlam

Ex: The writer argues that the steady growth in lunatic asylums in early-19th-century British India played an important role in the making of colonial society.

Ex: In the book, Romania is a madhouse filled with the handicapped, deaf mutes, and stutterers.

Ex: In subsequent years, Bethlem became 'Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.

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madhouse