INSTITUTIONALISE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they institutionalise ... he / she / it institutionalises

Past simple: institutionalised

Past participle: institutionalised

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 "institutionalise" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

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

hospitalise; hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

institution (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new)

institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)