madhouse
noun
a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
madhouses
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pluralof madhouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The burnt-orange and Sooner-red halves of the Cotton Bowl had alternated as madhouses.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2021
“The incarceration of freethinking healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2018
It would be a total madhouse but, remembering the previous total madhouses, you could go: OK, we just have to hold out for another 15 minutes and it will recede.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013
A best-selling personal history, it drew the nation's attention to the primitive brutality of its madhouses, led to reforms that helped many unbalanced minds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lifeboats ... madhouses ... gamblers' wives ... all done to the right sort of moaning.
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
