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INSTITUTIONALIZE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

Example:

he was committed to prison

Synonyms:

charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

transfer (move from one place to another)

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

hospitalise; hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)

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