HOSPITALIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they hospitalize ... he / she / it hospitalizes

Past simple: hospitalized

Past participle: hospitalized

-ing form: hospitalizing

Meaning:

Admit into a hospital

Example:

Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high

Synonyms:

hospitalise; hospitalize

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send (cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

hospital (a health facility where patients receive treatment)

hospital (a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care)

hospitalization (placing in medical care in a hospital)

hospitalization (the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital)

hospitalization (a period of time when you are confined to a hospital)