Thesaurus results for SICKROOM

sickroom

noun

Definition of sickroom

as in hospital

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Recent Examples of sickroom On the night of September 8, 1976, as Mao hovered near death, senior members of the Politburo gathered in a sickroom in the leadership compound in Beijing to pay their final respects. — Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025 To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door. — Liz Szabo, NBC News, 17 May 2022 In 1855, Martineau once again confined herself to a sickroom due to a resurgence of her symptoms. — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021 When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment. — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2021 For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion. — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020 Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom. — Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020

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Noun

The 70-mile roundtrip to the hospital now costs more due to higher gas prices.

— Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Clancy checked herself into a psychiatric hospital that New Year’s Eve and spent several days there.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of hospital

Noun

Meanwhile, people at Hamilton mostly wanted to talk about the $55 million infirmary renovation.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
John Anthony Cole, 49, is the prisoner in the video, and the incident occurred in the Adult Detention Center infirmary, Miller said.

— Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 15 June 2026

Definition of infirmary

Noun

Employees also enjoy such benefits as preventative medical care and an on-site clinic at Progressive’s headquarters in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

— Haniya Rae, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Another camper introduced her family to a pain clinic at the Cleveland Clinic that was life-changing.

— Rachel Hale, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The house was so quiet, with floors made of the same marble as the maze, and curtains of pale velvet and four-poster beds, and the sanatorium feeling of glasses of milk that appeared daily on her bedside table.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
The site was home to a sanatorium for internal diseases in the early 20th century, founded by the physician Theodor Büdingen.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026

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