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Definition of "mental hospital" []

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "mental hospital" in a sentence
  • "However, the most wrenching sign of collapse came in a visit to the al-Rashad mental hospital on the outskirts of Baghdad."
  • "He contemplated putting a deadbolt on the door so it could be locked easily from either the inside or the outside, but in the end he settled for a heavy-duty, dual-keyed door handle, the type found in a mental hospital or a high-security manufacturing company."
  • "He studied her with those dark, warm eyes and she realized she knew very little about the woman who had borne her, the woman whose birthday she had shared, the woman who had slit her own wrists, the woman who had spent years in a mental hospital fighting her own set of demons."