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infirmary

[in-fur-muh-ree] / ɪnˈfɜr mə ri /
NOUN
clinic
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Working as a cook at the local infirmary, she attends a revival meeting that proves pivotal to her development.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

Levi was too sick and Soviet troops found him close to death in the camp infirmary.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025

For the jail’s infirmary, there are options including adding new steel-braced frames.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024

“Every now and then, people had high fever. They were taken to the infirmary, then brought back, and that was it,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

On my way back to the infirmary one afternoon, I see a rice ball left unguarded beside an old woman.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Hospitals’ infirmaries are facing greatest demand at the moment, and no longer their intensive-care units as occurred last year, according to Alberto Chebabo, the vice-president of the Brazilian society of infectious disease specialists.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

The injured were diverted to workhouse infirmaries to be treated after Swansea General Hospital was bombed.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2021

The tide overwhelmed camp hospitals, relief organizations built temporary infirmaries, and the Army converted barracks to house battalions of sickened men.

From Slate ● May 16, 2020

There were government hospitals as well: The infirmaries that grew out of the much-despised workhouses of the 19th century.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2016

Were the SS really going to leav e hundreds of prisoners behind in the infirmaries, pending the arrival of their liberators?

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel




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