asylum
/əˈsaɪləm/ verb C2- to place in an asylum
- to grant protection or refuge
He/she/it asylums · Past asylumed · Past participle asylumed · -ing form asyluming
Verb forms
- Base form
- asylum
- He/she/it
- asylums
- Past
- asylumed
- Past participle
- asylumed
- -ing form
- asyluming
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Alexander Spencer was up here one day before Christmas and she said she was going to get a little girl from the asylum over in Hopeton in the spring.
Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night--set it _on purpose_, Marilla--and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.
“Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well--I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.
But there, _she_ wouldn’t shrink from adopting a whole orphan asylum if she took it into her head.”
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