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snake pit

noun

1 snake pit

Any place of pain and turmoil.

synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, the pits.

2 snake pit

Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.

synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse ... show more.

Dutch: dolhuis, gekkenhuis, gesticht, inrichting, krankzinnigengesticht, zothuis
Polish: dom obłąkanych, szpital psychiatryczny, wariatkowo, dom wariatów


Moby thesaurus: Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, can of worms, complex, jungle, knot, labyrinth, maze, meander, mesh, mess, perplex, ravel, snafu, snarl, tangle, tangled skein, webwork, wheels within wheels ... show more.

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