All 6 Uses
infirmary
in
The Boy on the Wooden Box
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- Earlier that evening my friend Yossel and I had carried an elderly woman on a stretcher to the ghetto infirmary, but we had made a dangerous miscalculation.†
p. 99.4 *infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment
- We had waited too long at the infirmary with her before heading home and had stayed out past the evening curfew, the hour when all Jews had to be off the streets.†
p. 99.5
- I had to go to the camp infirmary to have the cut bandaged.†
p. 119.4
- I learned later the commandant of Plaszow, SS Hauptsturmfiihrer Amon Goeth, had entered the infirmary shortly after I had left and shot all the patients, just shot every single one of them for no reason except that he felt like it.†
p. 119.5
- When I heard what had happened, I promised myself no matter what, I would never go to the infirmary again.†
p. 119.8
- Avoiding the infirmary didn't mean escaping the net of cruelty Amon Goeth cast over the camp.†
p. 119.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(infirmary) a small facility where patients receive treatment -- such as a room or two at a school as contrasted to a busy hospital or medical clinic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)