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Bedlam   /bˈɛdləm/   Listen
noun
Bedlam  n.  
1.
A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
2.
An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. (Obs.) "Let's get the bedlam to lead him."
3.
Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.


adjective
Bedlam  adj.  Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess."





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"Bedlam" Quotes from Famous Books



... place for work you've been, But soon a Bedlam once again, A mess, a wreck. But say, I wonder will it make us mad. No, House, I'll bet we both are glad The kid ...
— Bib Ballads • Ring W. Lardner
... predicted by the respective advocates of those measures are mere assumptions. We have no experience by which to try the question. The doctrines of free trade are of very recent growth; the data on which its laws are founded are few, and also uncertain. And does any one out of Bedlam imagine, that any Minister of this country would consent to run such tremendous risks—to try such experiments upon an article of such immense importance to its well-being? Let us never lose sight of Lord Melbourne's memorable words:—"Whether the object be to have a fixed duty, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. • Various
... remark helped to clear the atmosphere for the Allies at least, and then our attention was once more directed toward the river, for around us there had sprung up a perfect bedlam of screams and hisses and a seething caldron of hideous reptiles, devoid of fear and filled only with hunger and with rage. They clambered, squirmed and wriggled to the deck, forcing us steadily ...
— The Land That Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... taking that chap to Bedlam?" cried a shrill female voice close to us. The speech was stopped; we looked up, and perceived a wherry with two females passing close to us. A shout of laughter followed the observation, and my ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... bedlam let loose. They pictured all the terrors of captivity. They knew what it meant. They passed around the cordon beating their breasts, and shrieking like demoniacs. John, motioning to Muro and Uraso, stepped aside, and ordered the chiefs ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages • Roger Thompson Finlay


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