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How to pronounce infirmary in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hospital
Type of medical building, healthcare facility, health facility
Has types asylum, creche, foundling hospital, pesthouse, psychiatric hospital, sanatarium, sanatorium, sanitarium, insane asylum, institution, lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, lazaretto, maternity hospital, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, military hospital

Examples of infirmary

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Olga was one of the women drafted to work at the new, but ramshackle, infirmary.
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Each House had an infirmary on the top floor, where the children were cared for.
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He went to the infirmary, took a two-week course of antibiotics, and felt better.
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One pitch and an ERA of infinity, which is to say an ERA fit for an infirmary.
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The grounds include a large, Victorian-style museum, an infirmary and gardens.
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Ester made it to the prison infirmary before collapsing on the floor, Wilson said.
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He must have had a record in Choate for the number of days he was in the infirmary.
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Twenty-four hours a day nuns in the infirmary and convent pray for Herzlich.
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Indeed, St Thomas'started as an infirmary attached to the Priory of St Mary.
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  • Hospital: a health facility where patients receive treatment
  • The Infirmary, now known as the Student Health Care Center, is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in the United States. It was designed by Rudolph Weaver in the Collegiate Gothic style and was built in 1931. ...
  • A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; A clinic or dispensary within another institution
  • (Infirmaries) Atlantis has several medical facilities. These rooms house many different medical devices, most of them from Earth but some from the Ancients. There are also possibilities for medical and biological research. ...
  • To dream that you leave an infirmary, denotes your escape from wily enemies who will cause you much worry. See Hospital.
  • In a monastery, the hall or complex used to house and care for those religious who are ill, old, or infirm.
  • TYC facility on-campus medical clinic.
  • An area for the treatment of the physically sick or injured
  • An establishment offering treatment for the sick and injured, usually for a defined community. Thus, the medical provision in a workhouse was normally described as an infirmary. (See also Hospital.)