hospitalize

CEFRC1

/ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To take someone to a hospital for medical treatment.
02
verb
Extra detail
To cause (a person) to require hospitalization., Said of an injury or illness.

Examples

We had to hospitalize the victims.
He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized him for four weeks. […] ¶ […] ¶ […] Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again hospit...

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.

In context

He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized him for four weeks. […] ¶ […] ¶ […] Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again hospitalized by a deep infection behind his knee.
Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.
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.

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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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From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.