madhouse

/mad-hous/US // ˈmædˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈmædˌhaʊs) //

疯人院,精神病院,疯屋,疯子屋

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural mad·hous·es [mad-hou-ziz]. /ˈmædˌhaʊ zɪz/.
- : a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
- : a wild, confused, and often noisy place, set of circumstances, etc.: The office was a madhouse today.

nounplace where mentally ill live; place full of commotion

Synonyms

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.

/mad-hous/US // ˈmædˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈmædˌhaʊs) //

疯人院,精神病院,疯屋,疯子屋

n.名词 noun

1
plural mad·hous·es [mad-hou-ziz]. /ˈmædˌhaʊ zɪz/.
- : a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
- : a wild, confused, and often noisy place, set of circumstances, etc.: The office was a madhouse today.

nounplace where mentally ill live; place full of commotion

Synonyms

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.