Definition of madhouse in English:

madhouse

noun ˈmadhaʊsˈmædˌhaʊs

historical

1An institution for the care of mentally ill people.
Example sentencesExamples
- Written at the request of his father, the work focused on the abuses common in the madhouses of the time, and gave direction to the urgent need for reform.
- Anyway, according to Peig, that's where all the insane went before there was such a thing as a madhouse or an asylum.
- One half of Customers and Patrons constitutes a transcription (with detailed annotation) of a case book of Dr John Monro, the physician to the Bethlem Asylum and the proprietor of several madhouses in the London region.
- If you get too earnest about them, you could suffer the fate of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, whose obsessively detailed paintings of fairy scenes may have been his ticket to the madhouse.
- As for Van Gogh, he was confined in a madhouse for one reason; he was a madman.
Synonyms
psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum, institution
1. 1.1informal A psychiatric hospital.
  〈非正式〉精神病院
  Example sentencesExamples
  The idea is that America has become a madhouse, but the film's idiotic storyline and grotesque stereotypes of mental illness undercut its intended social impact.
  Agustín says he is leaving the madhouse for criminal lunatics before he becomes crazy too.
  But in the madhouse there is sometimes less madness than in real life as Antonio's ‘change’ demonstrates.
  A comparable effect can be found in the Brothers Quay's latest, In Absentia, where light plays menacingly over a doll-house-size madhouse.
  The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse, and often detours or ends there.
  Asked if he would stay on as head coach, Obradovic said: ‘That would lead me straight to a madhouse.’
  Inside, it smelled more like a madhouse than a clinic.
  ‘Hi, Mr. Treacher,’ I said quietly, feeling as if I had been thrown into a madhouse.
  Any therapist would probably just look at me one time and write on my chart ‘HEAD GONE’ and ship me off to the madhouse.
  He'd explained with so much compassion that medicine had no answers, that Ross's future was likely to be spent in a madhouse, chained to a wall or a bed to keep him from hurting himself or anyone else.
  The ‘Where’ is the campus of the alternative high school, ‘the claustrophobic madhouse.’
  The patients were held to basic standards of decent behavior and made to do chores in an environment more like a disciplined summer camp (or a well-run college group home) than a madhouse or hospital.
  The person who came up with this programme is a madman from a madhouse, a madman but a genius.
  I'm sorry we lose the ransom; but it was either that or Bill Driscoll to the madhouse.
  Humour and a sense of the ridiculous form the microscopic thread that keeps us out of the madhouse, monastery, convent, or whatever.
  He is amazed that Sonia has not succumbed to any of the three usual ways open for someone in her situation: the canal, the madhouse, or total submission to depravity.
  I was about 13 and I just thought, I'm in a madhouse, everybody is mad, so you do develop defences.
  In middle age, framed by a rival in love, he even endured the indignities of incarceration in a madhouse.
  For the most part, the press now fulfill the same function for the party that kindly nurses do at the madhouse; if the guy thinks he's Napoleon, just smile affably and ask him how Waterloo's going.
  But they've shut up the madhouse and nobody knows if they're coming or going.
  Synonyms
  mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, asylum
  informal nuthouse, funny farm, loony bin
  dated lunatic asylum
2. 1.2informal in singular A scene of extreme confusion or uproar.
  喧闹的情景；混乱的地方
  this place is a madhouse
  这地方乱得一团糟。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Both of them are at school, so it's a madhouse getting ready before we leave.
  ‘From there, it's a madhouse for two hours, because we are trying to get out 52 trucks without any problems,’ says Diggs.
  The place is a madhouse and colorful beyond description.
  It's a madhouse as usual, everyone running around getting ready.
  Beds occupied the lounge room floor, bags rested on all other available space, showers had become a hazard and dinnertime, coming as it did at five in the afternoon so that she could join in, made the kitchen a crowded madhouse.
  ‘It might be too much of a madhouse for the kids, but I'd love for them to be with me,’ Chaiken says from the ‘L Word’ set in Vancouver.
  The office of the Ayurveda Congress is a madhouse of activity.
  It ended up being such a mob scene, such a madhouse, I didn't leave until Sunday night.
  The supermarkets understandably turn into madhouses the day before a hurricane's arrival, but I wonder about the grocery lists of some of the customers.
  ‘This is a madhouse in here,’ said a clearly pleased Oliver Goldesberry.
  Most of them ended up using magic for the wrong reasons and it was gettin’ to be a madhouse in the magical world.
  Valencia Street on the Friday of Folsom Street Fair weekend is a madhouse.
  It's tough to find an audience for an intimate, thoughtful little movie in the summer movie madhouse, but Care isn't worried.
  Welcome to the madhouse that is the build-up to the opening night of a pantomime.
  Now more than ever, I'm happy to be a Brooklyn resident, away from the madhouse this convention has caused.
  You will work with Japanese teachers at your schools and the locations vary from extremely rural to the madhouse that is Tokyo.
  And would one's meal be as enjoyable if the restaurant lacked a staff whose unflagging charm turns what could be a madhouse into a many-splendored thing?
  Or, actually, I can wait, because I have to - did I mention that today is a madhouse over here?
  Everyone was made welcome not a hindrance as on some other sites and even getting parking for trucks and gear unloaded was handled in a helpful and friendly way although it was a complete madhouse as you would expect so close to opening.
  It has, over time, become a business-driven madhouse.
  Synonyms
  bedlam, mayhem, babel, chaos, pandemonium, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, scene of confusion, disorder, hurly-burly, tumult, jumble, pell-mell, hullabaloo, hubbub, whirlwind, maelstrom, madness, all hell broken loose
  North American three-ring circus
  British informal car crash

Definition of madhouse in US English:

madhouse

nounˈmædˌhaʊsˈmadˌhous

historical

1A mental institution.
〈史〉疯人院
Example sentencesExamples
- One half of Customers and Patrons constitutes a transcription (with detailed annotation) of a case book of Dr John Monro, the physician to the Bethlem Asylum and the proprietor of several madhouses in the London region.
- Anyway, according to Peig, that's where all the insane went before there was such a thing as a madhouse or an asylum.
- Written at the request of his father, the work focused on the abuses common in the madhouses of the time, and gave direction to the urgent need for reform.
- As for Van Gogh, he was confined in a madhouse for one reason; he was a madman.
- If you get too earnest about them, you could suffer the fate of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, whose obsessively detailed paintings of fairy scenes may have been his ticket to the madhouse.
Synonyms
psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum, institution
1. 1.1informal A psychiatric hospital.
  〈非正式〉精神病院
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was about 13 and I just thought, I'm in a madhouse, everybody is mad, so you do develop defences.
  Humour and a sense of the ridiculous form the microscopic thread that keeps us out of the madhouse, monastery, convent, or whatever.
  ‘Hi, Mr. Treacher,’ I said quietly, feeling as if I had been thrown into a madhouse.
  But in the madhouse there is sometimes less madness than in real life as Antonio's ‘change’ demonstrates.
  Agustín says he is leaving the madhouse for criminal lunatics before he becomes crazy too.
  The person who came up with this programme is a madman from a madhouse, a madman but a genius.
  I'm sorry we lose the ransom; but it was either that or Bill Driscoll to the madhouse.
  The idea is that America has become a madhouse, but the film's idiotic storyline and grotesque stereotypes of mental illness undercut its intended social impact.
  He'd explained with so much compassion that medicine had no answers, that Ross's future was likely to be spent in a madhouse, chained to a wall or a bed to keep him from hurting himself or anyone else.
  But they've shut up the madhouse and nobody knows if they're coming or going.
  Any therapist would probably just look at me one time and write on my chart ‘HEAD GONE’ and ship me off to the madhouse.
  The patients were held to basic standards of decent behavior and made to do chores in an environment more like a disciplined summer camp (or a well-run college group home) than a madhouse or hospital.
  He is amazed that Sonia has not succumbed to any of the three usual ways open for someone in her situation: the canal, the madhouse, or total submission to depravity.
  The ‘Where’ is the campus of the alternative high school, ‘the claustrophobic madhouse.’
  For the most part, the press now fulfill the same function for the party that kindly nurses do at the madhouse; if the guy thinks he's Napoleon, just smile affably and ask him how Waterloo's going.
  The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse, and often detours or ends there.
  A comparable effect can be found in the Brothers Quay's latest, In Absentia, where light plays menacingly over a doll-house-size madhouse.
  Asked if he would stay on as head coach, Obradovic said: ‘That would lead me straight to a madhouse.’
  Inside, it smelled more like a madhouse than a clinic.
  In middle age, framed by a rival in love, he even endured the indignities of incarceration in a madhouse.
  Synonyms
  mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, asylum
2. 1.2informal in singular A scene of extreme confusion or uproar.
  喧闹的情景；混乱的地方
  this place is a madhouse
  这地方乱得一团糟。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Beds occupied the lounge room floor, bags rested on all other available space, showers had become a hazard and dinnertime, coming as it did at five in the afternoon so that she could join in, made the kitchen a crowded madhouse.
  Both of them are at school, so it's a madhouse getting ready before we leave.
  The place is a madhouse and colorful beyond description.
  ‘From there, it's a madhouse for two hours, because we are trying to get out 52 trucks without any problems,’ says Diggs.
  ‘This is a madhouse in here,’ said a clearly pleased Oliver Goldesberry.
  It's a madhouse as usual, everyone running around getting ready.
  Everyone was made welcome not a hindrance as on some other sites and even getting parking for trucks and gear unloaded was handled in a helpful and friendly way although it was a complete madhouse as you would expect so close to opening.
  The supermarkets understandably turn into madhouses the day before a hurricane's arrival, but I wonder about the grocery lists of some of the customers.
  Now more than ever, I'm happy to be a Brooklyn resident, away from the madhouse this convention has caused.
  ‘It might be too much of a madhouse for the kids, but I'd love for them to be with me,’ Chaiken says from the ‘L Word’ set in Vancouver.
  It's tough to find an audience for an intimate, thoughtful little movie in the summer movie madhouse, but Care isn't worried.
  Valencia Street on the Friday of Folsom Street Fair weekend is a madhouse.
  Most of them ended up using magic for the wrong reasons and it was gettin’ to be a madhouse in the magical world.
  And would one's meal be as enjoyable if the restaurant lacked a staff whose unflagging charm turns what could be a madhouse into a many-splendored thing?
  Welcome to the madhouse that is the build-up to the opening night of a pantomime.
  Or, actually, I can wait, because I have to - did I mention that today is a madhouse over here?
  It ended up being such a mob scene, such a madhouse, I didn't leave until Sunday night.
  You will work with Japanese teachers at your schools and the locations vary from extremely rural to the madhouse that is Tokyo.
  The office of the Ayurveda Congress is a madhouse of activity.
  It has, over time, become a business-driven madhouse.
  Synonyms
  bedlam, mayhem, babel, chaos, pandemonium, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, scene of confusion, disorder, hurly-burly, tumult, jumble, pell-mell, hullabaloo, hubbub, whirlwind, maelstrom, madness, all hell broken loose

单词	madhouse
释义	Definition of madhouse in English: madhouse noun ˈmadhaʊsˈmædˌhaʊs historical 1An institution for the care of mentally ill people. Example sentencesExamples Written at the request of his father, the work focused on the abuses common in the madhouses of the time, and gave direction to the urgent need for reform. Anyway, according to Peig, that's where all the insane went before there was such a thing as a madhouse or an asylum. One half of Customers and Patrons constitutes a transcription (with detailed annotation) of a case book of Dr John Monro, the physician to the Bethlem Asylum and the proprietor of several madhouses in the London region. If you get too earnest about them, you could suffer the fate of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, whose obsessively detailed paintings of fairy scenes may have been his ticket to the madhouse. As for Van Gogh, he was confined in a madhouse for one reason; he was a madman. Synonyms psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum, institution 1.1informal A psychiatric hospital. 〈非正式〉精神病院 Example sentencesExamples The idea is that America has become a madhouse, but the film's idiotic storyline and grotesque stereotypes of mental illness undercut its intended social impact. Agustín says he is leaving the madhouse for criminal lunatics before he becomes crazy too. But in the madhouse there is sometimes less madness than in real life as Antonio's ‘change’ demonstrates. A comparable effect can be found in the Brothers Quay's latest, In Absentia, where light plays menacingly over a doll-house-size madhouse. The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse, and often detours or ends there. Asked if he would stay on as head coach, Obradovic said: ‘That would lead me straight to a madhouse.’ Inside, it smelled more like a madhouse than a clinic. ‘Hi, Mr. Treacher,’ I said quietly, feeling as if I had been thrown into a madhouse. Any therapist would probably just look at me one time and write on my chart ‘HEAD GONE’ and ship me off to the madhouse. He'd explained with so much compassion that medicine had no answers, that Ross's future was likely to be spent in a madhouse, chained to a wall or a bed to keep him from hurting himself or anyone else. The ‘Where’ is the campus of the alternative high school, ‘the claustrophobic madhouse.’ The patients were held to basic standards of decent behavior and made to do chores in an environment more like a disciplined summer camp (or a well-run college group home) than a madhouse or hospital. The person who came up with this programme is a madman from a madhouse, a madman but a genius. I'm sorry we lose the ransom; but it was either that or Bill Driscoll to the madhouse. Humour and a sense of the ridiculous form the microscopic thread that keeps us out of the madhouse, monastery, convent, or whatever. He is amazed that Sonia has not succumbed to any of the three usual ways open for someone in her situation: the canal, the madhouse, or total submission to depravity. I was about 13 and I just thought, I'm in a madhouse, everybody is mad, so you do develop defences. In middle age, framed by a rival in love, he even endured the indignities of incarceration in a madhouse. For the most part, the press now fulfill the same function for the party that kindly nurses do at the madhouse; if the guy thinks he's Napoleon, just smile affably and ask him how Waterloo's going. But they've shut up the madhouse and nobody knows if they're coming or going. Synonyms mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, asylum informal nuthouse, funny farm, loony bin dated lunatic asylum 1.2informal in singular A scene of extreme confusion or uproar. 喧闹的情景；混乱的地方 this place is a madhouse 这地方乱得一团糟。 Example sentencesExamples Both of them are at school, so it's a madhouse getting ready before we leave. ‘From there, it's a madhouse for two hours, because we are trying to get out 52 trucks without any problems,’ says Diggs. The place is a madhouse and colorful beyond description. It's a madhouse as usual, everyone running around getting ready. Beds occupied the lounge room floor, bags rested on all other available space, showers had become a hazard and dinnertime, coming as it did at five in the afternoon so that she could join in, made the kitchen a crowded madhouse. ‘It might be too much of a madhouse for the kids, but I'd love for them to be with me,’ Chaiken says from the ‘L Word’ set in Vancouver. The office of the Ayurveda Congress is a madhouse of activity. It ended up being such a mob scene, such a madhouse, I didn't leave until Sunday night. The supermarkets understandably turn into madhouses the day before a hurricane's arrival, but I wonder about the grocery lists of some of the customers. ‘This is a madhouse in here,’ said a clearly pleased Oliver Goldesberry. Most of them ended up using magic for the wrong reasons and it was gettin’ to be a madhouse in the magical world. Valencia Street on the Friday of Folsom Street Fair weekend is a madhouse. It's tough to find an audience for an intimate, thoughtful little movie in the summer movie madhouse, but Care isn't worried. Welcome to the madhouse that is the build-up to the opening night of a pantomime. Now more than ever, I'm happy to be a Brooklyn resident, away from the madhouse this convention has caused. You will work with Japanese teachers at your schools and the locations vary from extremely rural to the madhouse that is Tokyo. And would one's meal be as enjoyable if the restaurant lacked a staff whose unflagging charm turns what could be a madhouse into a many-splendored thing? Or, actually, I can wait, because I have to - did I mention that today is a madhouse over here? Everyone was made welcome not a hindrance as on some other sites and even getting parking for trucks and gear unloaded was handled in a helpful and friendly way although it was a complete madhouse as you would expect so close to opening. It has, over time, become a business-driven madhouse. Synonyms bedlam, mayhem, babel, chaos, pandemonium, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, scene of confusion, disorder, hurly-burly, tumult, jumble, pell-mell, hullabaloo, hubbub, whirlwind, maelstrom, madness, all hell broken loose North American three-ring circus British informal car crash Definition of madhouse in US English: madhouse nounˈmædˌhaʊsˈmadˌhous historical 1A mental institution. 〈史〉疯人院 Example sentencesExamples One half of Customers and Patrons constitutes a transcription (with detailed annotation) of a case book of Dr John Monro, the physician to the Bethlem Asylum and the proprietor of several madhouses in the London region. Anyway, according to Peig, that's where all the insane went before there was such a thing as a madhouse or an asylum. Written at the request of his father, the work focused on the abuses common in the madhouses of the time, and gave direction to the urgent need for reform. As for Van Gogh, he was confined in a madhouse for one reason; he was a madman. If you get too earnest about them, you could suffer the fate of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, whose obsessively detailed paintings of fairy scenes may have been his ticket to the madhouse. Synonyms psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum, institution 1.1informal A psychiatric hospital. 〈非正式〉精神病院 Example sentencesExamples I was about 13 and I just thought, I'm in a madhouse, everybody is mad, so you do develop defences. Humour and a sense of the ridiculous form the microscopic thread that keeps us out of the madhouse, monastery, convent, or whatever. ‘Hi, Mr. Treacher,’ I said quietly, feeling as if I had been thrown into a madhouse. But in the madhouse there is sometimes less madness than in real life as Antonio's ‘change’ demonstrates. Agustín says he is leaving the madhouse for criminal lunatics before he becomes crazy too. The person who came up with this programme is a madman from a madhouse, a madman but a genius. I'm sorry we lose the ransom; but it was either that or Bill Driscoll to the madhouse. The idea is that America has become a madhouse, but the film's idiotic storyline and grotesque stereotypes of mental illness undercut its intended social impact. He'd explained with so much compassion that medicine had no answers, that Ross's future was likely to be spent in a madhouse, chained to a wall or a bed to keep him from hurting himself or anyone else. But they've shut up the madhouse and nobody knows if they're coming or going. Any therapist would probably just look at me one time and write on my chart ‘HEAD GONE’ and ship me off to the madhouse. The patients were held to basic standards of decent behavior and made to do chores in an environment more like a disciplined summer camp (or a well-run college group home) than a madhouse or hospital. He is amazed that Sonia has not succumbed to any of the three usual ways open for someone in her situation: the canal, the madhouse, or total submission to depravity. The ‘Where’ is the campus of the alternative high school, ‘the claustrophobic madhouse.’ For the most part, the press now fulfill the same function for the party that kindly nurses do at the madhouse; if the guy thinks he's Napoleon, just smile affably and ask him how Waterloo's going. The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse, and often detours or ends there. A comparable effect can be found in the Brothers Quay's latest, In Absentia, where light plays menacingly over a doll-house-size madhouse. Asked if he would stay on as head coach, Obradovic said: ‘That would lead me straight to a madhouse.’ Inside, it smelled more like a madhouse than a clinic. In middle age, framed by a rival in love, he even endured the indignities of incarceration in a madhouse. Synonyms mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, asylum 1.2informal in singular A scene of extreme confusion or uproar. 喧闹的情景；混乱的地方 this place is a madhouse 这地方乱得一团糟。 Example sentencesExamples Beds occupied the lounge room floor, bags rested on all other available space, showers had become a hazard and dinnertime, coming as it did at five in the afternoon so that she could join in, made the kitchen a crowded madhouse. Both of them are at school, so it's a madhouse getting ready before we leave. The place is a madhouse and colorful beyond description. ‘From there, it's a madhouse for two hours, because we are trying to get out 52 trucks without any problems,’ says Diggs. ‘This is a madhouse in here,’ said a clearly pleased Oliver Goldesberry. It's a madhouse as usual, everyone running around getting ready. Everyone was made welcome not a hindrance as on some other sites and even getting parking for trucks and gear unloaded was handled in a helpful and friendly way although it was a complete madhouse as you would expect so close to opening. The supermarkets understandably turn into madhouses the day before a hurricane's arrival, but I wonder about the grocery lists of some of the customers. Now more than ever, I'm happy to be a Brooklyn resident, away from the madhouse this convention has caused. ‘It might be too much of a madhouse for the kids, but I'd love for them to be with me,’ Chaiken says from the ‘L Word’ set in Vancouver. It's tough to find an audience for an intimate, thoughtful little movie in the summer movie madhouse, but Care isn't worried. Valencia Street on the Friday of Folsom Street Fair weekend is a madhouse. Most of them ended up using magic for the wrong reasons and it was gettin’ to be a madhouse in the magical world. And would one's meal be as enjoyable if the restaurant lacked a staff whose unflagging charm turns what could be a madhouse into a many-splendored thing? Welcome to the madhouse that is the build-up to the opening night of a pantomime. Or, actually, I can wait, because I have to - did I mention that today is a madhouse over here? It ended up being such a mob scene, such a madhouse, I didn't leave until Sunday night. You will work with Japanese teachers at your schools and the locations vary from extremely rural to the madhouse that is Tokyo. The office of the Ayurveda Congress is a madhouse of activity. It has, over time, become a business-driven madhouse. Synonyms bedlam, mayhem, babel, chaos, pandemonium, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, scene of confusion, disorder, hurly-burly, tumult, jumble, pell-mell, hullabaloo, hubbub, whirlwind, maelstrom, madness, all hell broken loose
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