hospitalize
verb/ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/
Etymology
From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.
- derived from hospitālis
- derived from hospitālis
- derived from hospital
- inherited from hospital
Definitions
To send to hospital
To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
- Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.
- 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.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA