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Noun: asylum  u'sI-lum
  1. A shelter from danger or hardship
    - refuge, sanctuary
     
  2. A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
    - mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum

Derived forms: asylums

Type of: hospital, infirmary, shelter

Encyclopedia: Asylum, Pennsylvania

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