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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

In Black Picture Show, Playwright Bill Gunn's hero is already hospitalized, or rather, confined to a Bronx, New York City, mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

The action, and there is virtually none, for this is a Chekhovian mood piece, takes place in a 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

There is a mental home near Grasse where I believe they would take her; I can telephone and find out.

From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell

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