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lunatic asylum

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lunatic asylum
n
(Psychiatry) another name, usually regarded as offensive, for mental home
Translations
lunatic asylum
n → Irrenanstalt f
lunatic asylum n (old) (offensive) → manicomio
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I only wish all the drunkards could be put in a lunatic asylum instead of being allowed to run foul of sober people.
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And at that thought great shudders ran down my prone body, because, once, I had visited a famous lunatic asylum where they had shown me a poor wretch who was mad, apparently, because he thought he had been abominably fooled by a woman.
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and the solution of it has been repeatedly attempted, with no other result than to crowd our lunatic asylums with the would-be solvers.
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