Crossword-Solution: ASYLUMS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asylums | pl. | of Asylum |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ASYLUMS | anagram | ALYSSUM |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ASYLUMS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Havens or sanctuaries | 1 answer |
| Sanitariums | 1 answer |
| Places of safety. | 4 answers |
| Havens | 8 answers |
| Places of refuge | 8 answers |
| Refuges | 10 answers |
| Sanctuaries | 12 answers |
| Shelters | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASYLUMS (5)
Dreadful nightmares beset me; I saw in these mysterious asylums a world of unknown animals, amongst which this submarine boat seemed to be of the same kind, living, moving, and formidable as they.
Thus, then and now, there stand in the South two separate worlds; and separate not simply in the higher realms of social intercourse, but also in church and school, on railway and street car, in hotels and theatres, in streets and city sections, in books and newspapers, in asylums and jails, in hospitals and graveyards.
They have a lot of trained agents traveling about the State, keeping in touch with families who are willing to take children, and with asylums that have them to give.
The monks of the Latin convents are chiefly persons of the peasant class from Italy and Spain, who have been handed over to these remote asylums by order of their ecclesiastical superiors, and can no more account for their being in the Holy Land, than men of marching regiments can explain why they are in “stupid quarters.” I believe that these monks are for the most part well conducted men, punctual in their ceremonial duties, and altogether humble-minded Christians.
When one reflects that thousands of our countrymen pass at least one-half of their lives in these asylums, and that thousands more in America know no other homes, but move from one hotel to another, while the same outlay would procure them cosy, cheerful dwellings, it does seem as if these modern Arabs, Holmes's "Folding Bed-ouins," were gradually returning to prehistoric habits and would end by eating roots promiscuously in caves.
Quotes with ASYLUMS (3)
I'm sitting in front of the TV, watching Jerry Springer, and it makes me think of how many mad people there are in the world, and whether everyone is mad deep down, they just pretend they're not, and it's the people in asylums or on Jerry Springer who are the honest ones. I have a notebook and a chewed-up pen, and I'm trying to think of a topic for the Youth Issues speech. Mrs Thomas says she thinks I have a lot to say, but I don't. Nothing I can put words to anyway. I could …
Wisdomis in the insane asylums. The endis in the everyday-pale smiles
Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was too stupid to be a clerk. Probably I should receive no replies; possibly one. Possibly also (nay, probably) it would be from the one man who was not stupid at all. But suppose I had advertised that I had a place for any one who was too clever to be a clerk. My office would be instantly besieged by all the most hopeless fools in the four kingdoms. To advertise for …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1978–2022).