Asylum
noun
A safe place to protect someone from danger or treat them.
She was granted asylum after fleeing from her dangerous home country.
Often appears as...
- seek asylum
- granted asylum
noun
A hospital for mentally ill people.
The old asylum has been abandoned for many years.
Often appears as...
- mental asylum
- lunatic asylum
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Academic
noun
A safe place to protect someone from danger or treat them.
She was granted asylum after fleeing from her dangerous home country.
Often appears as...
- seek asylum
- granted asylum
noun
A hospital for mentally ill people.
The old asylum has been abandoned for many years.
Often appears as...
- mental asylum
- lunatic asylum
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Protection
Asylum provides legal protection from being sent back to a country where the individual might face danger.
The court reviewed her case to determine if she qualified for asylum.
Pro Tip 2/3Humanitarian Grounds
People often seek asylum for humanitarian reasons like escaping war or persecution.
Many refugees seek asylum for safety and a chance at a new life.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Term
Use the term ‘asylum’ respectfully as it relates to sensitive human rights issues.
The debate on asylum policies is highly emotional and politically charged.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Protection
Asylum provides legal protection from being sent back to a country where the individual might face danger.
The court reviewed her case to determine if she qualified for asylum.
Pro Tip 2/3Humanitarian Grounds
People often seek asylum for humanitarian reasons like escaping war or persecution.
Many refugees seek asylum for safety and a chance at a new life.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Term
Use the term ‘asylum’ respectfully as it relates to sensitive human rights issues.
The debate on asylum policies is highly emotional and politically charged.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Protection
Asylum provides legal protection from being sent back to a country where the individual might face danger.
The court reviewed her case to determine if she qualified for asylum.
Pro Tip 2/3Humanitarian Grounds
People often seek asylum for humanitarian reasons like escaping war or persecution.
Many refugees seek asylum for safety and a chance at a new life.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Term
Use the term ‘asylum’ respectfully as it relates to sensitive human rights issues.
The debate on asylum policies is highly emotional and politically charged.
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Video examples
Atheism 2.0 PIPE Alain de...
and you said, "I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live," they would show you the way to the insane asylum. This is simply not what our grandest and best institutes of higher learning are in the business of. Why? They don't think we need it.
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Erika Pinheiro: What's...
are trapped in some of the most dangerous cities in the world, where they're being raped, kidnapped and extorted by criminal groups. And if they survive for long enough to make it to their asylum hearing, less than one percent of them are able to find an attorney to help them with their cases.
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Hubertus Knabe: The dark...
Oh, that's a difficult question, but if you ask me, and if I answer honestly, I would give him the asylum, because I think it was really brave what he did, and he destroyed his whole life and his family and everything. So I think, for these people, we should do something,
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The power of introverts...
he said that such a man would be an Aluna tick asylum if he existed at all and some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert extrovert spectrum and we call these people ambiverts and I often think that they have the best of all worlds but many of us do recognize
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The power of introverts...
He said that such a man would be in a lunatic asylum, if he existed at all. And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts. And I often think that they have the best of all worlds.
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How the Afghan youth are...
put their commitment into test rather than making every effort to leave and seek asylum in European countries the secular youth captured in my photographs have stayed and strive to transform their war-torn country into a more
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Mexican Asylum Seeker PIPE...
facing at this time how can we grant asylum to someone who's claiming persecution by the military when at that very moment Congress voted to grant millions and millions of dollars of military aid to the Mexican military the
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The fundamental right to...
How do I keep my daughter safe? How do I protect my son? And if you want absolutes, it's absolutely legal to seek asylum. It is a fundamental right in our own laws and in international law. And, in fact --
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Strange answers to the...
Broadmoor is Broadmoor Hospital he used to be known as the Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane that's where they said that serial killers and the people who can't help themselves and I said too
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Barat Ali Batoor: My...
but I was really afraid that I would end up in Indonesia for many years doing nothing and unable to work, like every other asylum seeker. But it had happened to be a little bit different with me.
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Atheism 2.0 PIPE Alain de...
and you said, "I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live," they would show you the way to the insane asylum. This is simply not what our grandest and best institutes of higher learning are in the business of. Why? They don't think we need it.
Video examples
Erika Pinheiro: What's...
are trapped in some of the most dangerous cities in the world, where they're being raped, kidnapped and extorted by criminal groups. And if they survive for long enough to make it to their asylum hearing, less than one percent of them are able to find an attorney to help them with their cases.
Video examples
Hubertus Knabe: The dark...
Oh, that's a difficult question, but if you ask me, and if I answer honestly, I would give him the asylum, because I think it was really brave what he did, and he destroyed his whole life and his family and everything. So I think, for these people, we should do something,
Video examples
The power of introverts...
he said that such a man would be an Aluna tick asylum if he existed at all and some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert extrovert spectrum and we call these people ambiverts and I often think that they have the best of all worlds but many of us do recognize
Video examples
The power of introverts...
He said that such a man would be in a lunatic asylum, if he existed at all. And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts. And I often think that they have the best of all worlds.
Video examples
How the Afghan youth are...
put their commitment into test rather than making every effort to leave and seek asylum in European countries the secular youth captured in my photographs have stayed and strive to transform their war-torn country into a more
Video examples
Mexican Asylum Seeker PIPE...
facing at this time how can we grant asylum to someone who's claiming persecution by the military when at that very moment Congress voted to grant millions and millions of dollars of military aid to the Mexican military the
Video examples
The fundamental right to...
How do I keep my daughter safe? How do I protect my son? And if you want absolutes, it's absolutely legal to seek asylum. It is a fundamental right in our own laws and in international law. And, in fact --
Video examples
Strange answers to the...
Broadmoor is Broadmoor Hospital he used to be known as the Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane that's where they said that serial killers and the people who can't help themselves and I said too
Video examples
Barat Ali Batoor: My...
but I was really afraid that I would end up in Indonesia for many years doing nothing and unable to work, like every other asylum seeker. But it had happened to be a little bit different with me.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Sharice Davids
American Politician
Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.
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D. B. Sweeney
American Actor
To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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Dan Crenshaw
American Politician
People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.
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Nellie Bly
American Journalist
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
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Arthur Miller
American Playwright
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
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Ayanna Pressley
American Politician
I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.
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Robert De Niro
Actor
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
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David Blunkett
British Politician
Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
Quote examples
Sharice Davids
American Politician
Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.
Quote examples
D. B. Sweeney
American Actor
To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
Quote examples
Dan Crenshaw
American Politician
People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.
Quote examples
Nellie Bly
American Journalist
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Quote examples
Arthur Miller
American Playwright
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
Quote examples
Ayanna Pressley
American Politician
I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.
Quote examples
Robert De Niro
Actor
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
Quote examples
David Blunkett
British Politician
Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.
Quote examples
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Quote examples
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
Example 1 of 10
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