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Madhouse (Noun)

Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.

Nouns denoting man-made objects.

The hospital's psychiatric ward was little more than a madhouse, with shrieks and wails echoing down the corridors.
After a few weeks in the asylum, the patient realized she was trapped in a madhouse with no escape in sight.
The protesters held signs reading "Close the Madhouse on 5th Street" to express their opposition to the local mental institution.
By the 1970s, the notorious Trans-Allegheny Asylum was often referred to as a madhouse due to its dismal conditions and inhumane treatments.
Critics of the government's mental health policies described the state-run asylums as madhouses where patients received little more than warehousing and neglect.