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单词 thanatorium
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thanatoriumn.

/θanəˈtɔːrɪəm/
Forms: Plural thanatoria.
Etymology: Alteration of sanatorium, after thanato- comb. form.
An establishment where people are received in order to be killed.
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1970 Times 1 May 11/4 We should need public thanatoria, just as we have public crematoria and abattoirs.
1970 New Scientist 24 Sept. 626/2 The Thanatoria, the most negative of all the departments.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 166/1 The violent jerks from excess to excess of the patients at Dr Sacks's pseudonymous New York hospital—‘not a sanatorium but a thanatorium’, as one of the inmates remarked.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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