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madhouse

[ mad-hous ]

noun

, plural mad·hous·es [mad, -hou-ziz].
  1. a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
  2. a wild, confused, and often noisy place, set of circumstances, etc.:

    The office was a madhouse today.

    Synonyms: bedlam



madhouse

/ ˈmædˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. a mental hospital or asylum
  2. a state of uproar or confusion
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of madhouse1

First recorded in 1680–90; mad + house
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Example Sentences

Until the day, he says, that “Our funhouse… turned into a madhouse.”

Not so long before, executions had been popular entertainment and trips to a madhouse were like going to the circus.

Dylan had a small role in a BBC TV drama called Madhouse on Castle Street by the Jamaican playwright Evan Jones.

Before long, it was a madhouse—both literally and figuratively.

And to state the obvious, Gosnell's madhouse was not what I was marching for.

Madhouse went bust last year; the company was reportedly bought by a new owner around the time the label came to light.

He passed the latter part of his life in poverty, and towards the close of it, was confined in a madhouse.

Even when a separation had been effected his tormentor persecuted him still, until she was relegated to a madhouse.

The awful humiliation of it unseated Robert Dale Owen's reason, and he died in the madhouse.

If Great Britain in 1913 was not exactly a cockpit or a madhouse, she was not without her domestic troubles.

I thank Heaven that he has so far recovered: he was for one whole year quite raving, and chained down in a madhouse.

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