How do you use the word "hospitalize" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hospitalize": We had to hospitalize the victims.

Hospitalize Meaning

/ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.

verbTo render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

Sentence Examples

We had to hospitalize the victims.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

hospitalise

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The doctors decided to ____ the patient after the accident.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

If the fever does not break soon, we may have to ____ her to prevent complications.

Word Origin & History

From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him." — 1980, Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth, Tor, published 2010, →ISBN, page 129:

"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." — 2005, Timothy O’Grady, On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession, St. Martin’s Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 199:

"For example, just this month in Los Angeles a Jewish school principal was beaten and hospitalized by angry Hispanics who were upset because the mostly-Latino school their kids went to didn't also have a Hispanic principal." — 1999 February 24, Alan Earle, “Re: Asinine excuse for breeding...”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

"One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher." — 2001, Richard L. Curwin, Allen N. Mendler, Discipline with Dignity, Merrill, →ISBN, page 198:

"My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon." — 2007 September 3, john p, “Re: I Finally Watched September Dawn”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):

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