"asylum" in the noun sense
1. refuge, sanctuary, asylum
a shelter from danger or hardship
2. mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum
a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
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