Loquera in english
Padded cell
pronunciation: pædədsel part of speech: none
pronunciation: pædədsel part of speech: none
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loquero = asylum ; mental asylum ; lunatic asylum ; madhouse ; bedlam ; shrink ; booby hatch ; mental institution.
Example: Most of the early asylums for the insane in the USA established libraries for their patients.Example: The book starts with the author's mother being taken away for committal to a mental asylum.Example: The writer argues that the steady growth in lunatic asylums in early-19th-century British India played an important role in the making of colonial society.Example: In the book, Romania is a madhouse filled with the handicapped, deaf mutes, and stutterers.Example: In subsequent years, Bethlem became 'Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.Example: In a town with several million people there are usually hundreds of neurotics who visit shrinks regularly.Example: The men in white coats will put you in the booby hatch where you belong someday.Example: Ever since she got outta the mental institution and after Nia bailed her outta jail she stopped stalking people.