Insane Asylum (Noun)
Meaning
A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The rundown building had once been an insane asylum, but years of neglect had left it a crumbling shell of its former self.
- His grandmother's stories about her time working at the local insane asylum still haunted him to this day.
- In the late 1800s, the treatment of patients at the insane asylum was often brutal and inhumane.
- The patient was transferred to a secure ward at the insane asylum after attempting to escape from the general hospital.
- Former patients of the notorious insane asylum were reunited for a documentary exploring the horrors they endured.