madhouse
a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
a wild, confused, and often noisy place, set of circumstances, etc.: The office was a madhouse today.
Origin of madhouse
1Other words for madhouse
2 | bedlam, shambles |
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How to use madhouse in a sentence
Still, federal prisons are almost always preferable to the madhouses that overcrowded state-run facilities have become.
“Mad as hatters,” it said, merely because they had shot themselves, or died in the madhouses to which it had driven them!
Gray youth | Oliver OnionsAnd of those other sad cases—dead, yet living—who people the madhouses and asylums, what of them?
The Physical Life of Woman: | Dr. George H NapheysA large proportion of the inmates of our madhouses are the victims of ardent spirit.
Select Temperance Tracts | American Tract SocietyThe earliest "centrals" reminded most persons of madhouses, for the day of the polite, soft-spoken telephone girl had not arrived.
The Age of Big Business | Burton J. Hendrick
He knew how madhouses were run, how kings dined, how beggars slept in goods boxes, and many other useful items.
Pictures Every Child Should Know | Dolores Bacon
British Dictionary definitions for madhouse
/ (ˈmædˌhaʊs) /
a mental hospital or asylum
a state of uproar or confusion
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