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How to pronounce bedlam in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness
Type of confusion
Has types balagan
Type Words
Synonyms booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit
Type of institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, asylum, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum

Examples of bedlam

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If we lose the Post Office it's going to be bedlam, it's a horrendous situation.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
Then all bedlam takes place but he continues to holds the rawhide in his mouth.
From the suntimes.com
It couldn't be any worse than the two hours of bedlam you are currently enduring.
From the timesunion.com
If she did, she was likely swallowed up by the bedlam near the Brooklyn Bridge.
From the lohud.com
Bedlam broke out in the ninth inning when the Rangers'bench raced to the bullpen.
From the usatoday.com
We were never promised a rose garden, but neither were we threatened with bedlam.
From the time.com
He took a lob pass from Hedo Turkoglu and stuffed it to turn the arena into bedlam.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The judge walked through the jail for hours, talked to inmates, found bedlam.
From the post-gazette.com
Some Americans opted to avoid the bedlam of Black Friday and shop online from home.
From the bloomberg.com
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  • Chaos: a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  • Pejorative terms for an insane asylum
  • Bedlam was an English rock band formed by Cozy Powell and the Ball brothers in November 1972, first known as Beast.
  • Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson) is a fictional character, a mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He originally possessed the mutant ability to create and project a bio-EM field. This has the effect of temporarily disabling any similarly powered technology in the vicinity. ...
  • Bedlam is an EP by Twilightning, released March 27, 2006, on the label Universal International.
  • The Exemplars is a fictional group appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. It was made up of eight humans - Bedlam, Carnivore, Conquest, Decay, Inferno, Juggernaut, Stonecutter, and Tempest - who were empowered by the Octessence.
  • Bedlam (1946) is a film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, and was the last in a series of stylish B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures. The film was inspired by William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, and Hogarth was given a writing credit.
  • Bedlam is a young adult novel by Ally Kennen, published on January 5, 2009. It is nominated for the 2010 Carnegie Medal. Like Beast and Berserk, there will be a new edition of the book in May which features a new cover.
  • Bedlam is a small village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England situated north of Harrogate.