Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. See sanatorium.
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- n. Alternative spelling of sanatorium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A health station or retreat; a sanatorium.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An improper form for sanatorium.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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Races, which was written by a number of MGM contract writers including George Seaton (who later went on to write and direct Miracle on 34th Street), seems to me to soften the Brothers up quite a bit more; Groucho's less of a * schnorrer*, Chico has a real job (working at the sanitarium), as does Harpo (a jockey?!), and their goals are even nobler: they don't just want to help out young lovers, they want to save a failing sanitarium from the evil businessman.
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And just in case those meddlesome friends of Hugh's manage to get wind of what we've done, the sanitarium is the safest place she could be!
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The proprietor of the so-called sanitarium was also arrested, and both prisoners were driven down to the Brooklyn police station.
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When that fails, Marlowe is held hostage at Amthor's "sanitarium," a front for his blackmailing ring, and drugged with a truth serum to get him to talk.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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After I figured out about having CFS, I switched to fantasies of the other kind of sanitarium, those elegant refuges for wealthy folks with tuberculosis, where a kindly nurse in a starched uniform wheels you out in your wicker bath chair onto the porch to take the air while you make desultory conversation with the other patients and sip lukewarm tea.
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We engaged a nurse to look after the future patient of the "sanitarium" while we did our best to look for the sanitarium itself.
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Evading an effort (on the part of an aunt, I believe) to get him locked up safely in a "sanitarium," he began a trip round the world with an orgy which continued from San Francisco to Bangkok, where, in the company of some congenial fellow travellers, he interfered in a native ceremonial with the result that one of his companions was drowned.
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Maybe simply seeing Violet/Chloe in that sanitarium would be enough to tip Dante Baptiste into madness, especially after watching Heather Wallace die.
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And if the little psycho was still breathing, why not just cart his bloodsucker ass to Doucet-Bainbridge and toss him inside instead of trying to lure him to the sanitarium?
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Without Heather Wallace, there was no guarantee that S would pay the sanitarium a visit—provided he was still breathing.
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