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madhouse

noun as in place full of commotion and disorder

noun as in (older, offensive) residence for mentally ill people

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Until the day, he says, that “Our funhouse… turned into a madhouse.”

Not so long before, executions had been popular entertainment and trips to a madhouse were like going to the circus.

Dylan had a small role in a BBC TV drama called Madhouse on Castle Street by the Jamaican playwright Evan Jones.

Before long, it was a madhouse—both literally and figuratively.

And to state the obvious, Gosnell's madhouse was not what I was marching for.

Madhouse went bust last year; the company was reportedly bought by a new owner around the time the label came to light.

He passed the latter part of his life in poverty, and towards the close of it, was confined in a madhouse.

Even when a separation had been effected his tormentor persecuted him still, until she was relegated to a madhouse.

The awful humiliation of it unseated Robert Dale Owen's reason, and he died in the madhouse.

If Great Britain in 1913 was not exactly a cockpit or a madhouse, she was not without her domestic troubles.

I thank Heaven that he has so far recovered: he was for one whole year quite raving, and chained down in a madhouse.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to madhouse, such as: asylum, bedlam, chaos, pandemonium, turmoil, and uproar.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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