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HOSPITALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they hospitalize ... he / she / it hospitalizes
Past simple: hospitalized
Past participle: hospitalized
-ing form: hospitalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Admit into a hospital
Example:
Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high
Synonyms:
hospitalise; hospitalize
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "hospitalize" is one way to...):
charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send (cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
hospital (a health facility where patients receive treatment)
hospital (a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care)
hospitalization (placing in medical care in a hospital)
hospitalization (the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital)
hospitalization (a period of time when you are confined to a hospital)
