padded room
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpaddedandroom
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padded
adjective
uk/ˈpæd.ɪd/us/ˈpæd.ɪd/
containing or consisting of a shaped piece of soft material, either for comfort or to give something a particular ...
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room
noun
uk/ruːm/us/ruːm/
a part of the inside of a building that is separated from other parts by walls, floor, ...
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(Definition ofpaddedandroomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One of the saddest cases was that of a man kept practically without clothes in apaddedroom.
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This prisoner was placed in a loose canvas restraint jacket and located in apaddedroombecause he had become violent and was injuring himself.
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It is quite true that the man became insane, and he was put in apaddedroom.
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Thepaddedroomis virtually a thing of the past.
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That man was kept in apaddedroomfor three or four months, and he died.
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Now they have got into apaddedroomand appear to be muttering to themselves.
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His fiancée came to see him, and she says they were continually interrupted by the screams and shouts of patients after he was let out of thepaddedroom.
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One solution would be to put the councils in apaddedroom, throw away the key and not let them out until they reach a common-sense compromise.
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She had just got over an obstreperous phase of singing hymns, and had been confined to apaddedroom.
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Or that insanity might be normal, and that we all are in need of apaddedroom.
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