madhouse
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noun, plural mad·hous·es [-hou-ziz] .
[-hou-ziz] . 
zɪz1.
a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
2.
a wild, confused, and often noisy place, set of circumstances, etc.: The office was a madhouse today.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a mental hospital or asylum |
| 2. | a state of uproar or confusion |
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Madhouse
is always a great word to know.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
Scenes of these therapies have the mood of other movies' madhouse episodes.
For such tiny objects, the world is governed by a madhouse set of physical laws known as quantum mechanics.
Yet there is an element of the madhouse in that explanation too.
And some directors have brought seemingly sane works into madhouse settings.
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