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mental home

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noun

  1. a home, hospital, or institution for people who are mentally ill

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect.

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

Last season, in Home, Storey made old age in a mental home his metaphor for the decline and fragmentation of empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Opened Shutters by Clara Louise Burnham

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