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    INSTITUTIONALISE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they institutionalise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it institutionalises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: institutionalised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: institutionalised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: institutionalising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institutionplay

    Example:

    he was committed to prison

    Synonyms:

    charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send

    Classified under:

    Verbs of buying, selling, owning

    Hypernyms (to "institutionalise" is one way to...):

    transfer (move from one place to another)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "institutionalise"):

    hospitalise; hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s somebody PP

    Derivation:

    institution (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new)

    institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)

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