Bedlam
['bedləm] or ['bɛdləm]
Definition
(n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
(n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
(n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.
(a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Madhouse, lunatic hospital, lunatic asylum, hospital for the insane.
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Definition
n. an asylum for lunatics: a madhouse: a place of uproar.—adj. fit for a madhouse.—ns. Bed′lamism anything characteristic of madness; Bed′lamite a madman.
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Examples
- Why, not to put too fine a point upon it, this is Bedlam, sir! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For an instant, all was silence; even the bedlam of the forest died to a faint murmur. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- If an order comes to me, which is own brother to an order come from Bedlam, it don't matter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And if I invite all Newgate or all Bedlam here, by ------ they shall be welcome. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Slow: stagnating along, like shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, like Babel and Bedlam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mad as Bedlam, boy! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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