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Hospitalize

//ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
  2. 2
    admit into a hospital wordnet
  3. 3
    To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. archaic
  4. 4
    To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.; Said of an injury or illness. person

    "Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him."

  5. 5
    To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.; Said of an assailant or other person. person

    "For example, just this month in Los Angeles a Jewish school principal was beaten and hospitalized by angry Hispanics who were upset because the mostly-Latino school their kids went to didn't also have a Hispanic principal."

Etymology

From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.

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