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hospitalize

[ hos-pi-tl-ahyz ]

verb (used with object)

hospitalized, hospitalizing.
  1. to place in a hospital for medical care or observation:

    The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.



hospitalize

/ ˈɒɪəˌɪ /

verb

  1. tr to admit or send (a person) into a hospital
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ·Dzp·ٲ· verb (used with object) rehospitalized rehospitalizing
  • ܲ·Dzp·ٲ· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hospitalize1

First recorded in 1900–05; hospital + -ize
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The police video, spliced together from officers’ body-worn cameras and surveillance footage, showed confusion in the moments leading up to the incident, which left Lauren, 51, hospitalized with a gunshot wound.

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Nationally, 85 measles patients this year have had to be hospitalized.

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By their calculations, in that time frame, more than 170,000 people will be hospitalized, and nearly 900 will experience debilitating and potentially deadly neurological complications.

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The “Pose” actor and “Drag Race Philippines” judge was hospitalized for a “severe” infection and lost “most of her right leg,” a family statement said Thursday on her Instagram page.

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Arenas has been hospitalized and placed in a medically induced coma, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania, who first reported the crash.

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