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mental home

NOUN
booby hatch
Synonyms
STRONGEST
mental health institution psychiatric hospital psychiatric ward
STRONG
mental hospital mental institution
WEAK
bedlam bughouse funny farm laughing academy loony bin lunatic asylum madhouse nuthouse padded cell rubber room sanatorium sanitarium snake pit
NOUN
funny farm
Synonyms
WEAK
bedlam booby hatch bughouse laughing academy loony bin lunatic asylum madhouse mental health institution mental hospital mental institution nuthouse padded cell psychiatric hospital psychiatric ward rubber room sanatorium sanitarium snake pit
NOUN
insane asylum
Synonyms
STRONGEST
mental health institution psychiatric hospital
STRONG
mental hospital
WEAK
asylum bedlam booby hatch bughouse funny farm laughing academy loony bin lunatic asylum madhouse nut house padded cell rubber room sanatorium sanitarium snake pit

Example Sentences

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Mr. Ochs demanded that he and his brother, who suffers from a different form of the same condition, take a pledge never to incarcerate the other in a mental home.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2010

For the past 22 years she has lived almost continuously in a mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a short novel by a Brooklyn psychiatrist, actually little more than two case histories with dialogue, about a curative love that develops between two teen-age children in a suburban mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had a teacher three months of this year; she is now in a mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

What guests were trying to elbow their way into her mental home?

From The Opened Shutters by Burnham, Clara Louise