asylum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A place of safety or refuge.
2. isim The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).

   “So lawyers started filing separate asylum requests for the children, arguing that reintegrating in countries they barely knew, after spending their childhood or adolescence in Belgium, would not only be impossible but would expose them to serious risks.”

3. isim A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

   “Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.”

4. fiil to place in an asylum

   “It was she who in the last few years had spread abroad the notion that Charles Nagle, in the public interest, should be asylumed.”

5. fiil to grant protection or refuge

   “We have..sheltered its paupers, asylumed its orphans, clothed its nakedness.”