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INSTITUTIONALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they institutionalize ... he / she / it institutionalizes
Past simple: institutionalized
Past participle: institutionalized
-ing form: institutionalizing
Sense 1
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 "institutionalize" is one way to...):
transfer (move from one place to another)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "institutionalize"):
hospitalise; hospitalize (admit into a hospital)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)
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