We had to hospitalize the victims.
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Hospitalize
//ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz//
Synonyms for "hospitalize" (15 found)
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Related words (7)
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40 translations across 27 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- hospitaliseer verb (to send to a hospital)
- opneem verb (to send to a hospital)
Belarusian
1 entries- шпіталізава́ць verb (to send to a hospital)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хоспитализи́рам verb (to send to a hospital)
Catalan
1 entries- hospitalitzar verb (to send to a hospital)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 使住院 verb (to send to a hospital)
Czech
1 entries- hospitalizovat verb (to send to a hospital)
Danish
2 entries- hospitalisere verb (to send to a hospital)
- indlægge verb (to send to a hospital)
Dutch
2 entries- in een ziekenhuis opnemen verb (to send to a hospital)
- opnemen verb (to send to a hospital)
Finnish
2 entries- saattaa sairaalakuntoon verb (to send to a hospital)
- sijoittaa sairaalaan verb (to send to a hospital)
French
1 entries- hospitaliser verb (to send to a hospital)
Galician
1 entries- hospitalizar verb (to send to a hospital)
German
2 entries- hospitalisieren verb (to send to a hospital)
- ins Krankenhaus bringen/einweisen verb (to send to a hospital)
Hebrew
1 entries- אִשְׁפֵּז verb (to send to a hospital)
Hungarian
1 entries- kórházba szállít verb (to send to a hospital)
Italian
1 entries- ospedalizzare verb (to send to a hospital)
Japanese
1 entries- 入院させる verb (to send to a hospital)
Korean
1 entries- 입원시키다 verb (to send to a hospital)
Occitan
1 entries- espitalizar verb (to send to a hospital)
Polish
2 entries- hospitalizować verb (to send to a hospital)
- umieścić w szpitalu verb (to send to a hospital)
Portuguese
1 entries- hospitalizar verb (to send to a hospital)
Russian
3 entries- госпитализи́ровать verb (to send to a hospital)
- помести́ть в больни́цу verb (to send to a hospital)
- помеща́ть в больни́цу verb (to send to a hospital)
Spanish
1 entries- hospitalizar verb (to send to a hospital)
Swahili
1 entries- laza verb (to send to a hospital)
Swedish
2 entries- föras till sjukhus verb (to send to a hospital)
- lägga in (på sjukhus) verb (to send to a hospital)
Turkish
3 entries- hastanelik etmek verb (to cause to require hospitalization)
- hastaneye kaldırmak verb (to send to a hospital)
- hastaneye yatırmak verb (to send to a hospital)
Ukrainian
1 entries- госпіталізува́ти verb (to send to a hospital)
Vietnamese
3 entries- nhập viện verb (to send to a hospital)
- đưa vào bệnh viện verb (to send to a hospital)
- đưa vào nhà thương verb (to send to a hospital)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.
Source: wiktionary
He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized him for four weeks. […] ¶ […] ¶ […] Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again hospitalized by a deep infection behind his knee.
Source: wiktionary
My father had begun his long, slow decline long before that, but subsequently, on each of the anniversaries of her death, he had suffered increasingly debilitating crises that had hospitalized him and left him still more frail than before.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.