hospitalize

B2 Topic:Health & Medicine
US /ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/
verb Freq #65517

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    To take someone into a hospital for treatment.

    I had to be hospitalized because my blood pressure was too high.

  2. 2
    verb

    To injure or make someone ill enough to need hospital care.

    The crash hospitalized three of the passengers.

Thesaurus

Word family
Forms hospitalizedhospitalizeshospitalizing
Derived forms dehospitalizehospitalizablehospitalizationhospitalizerrehospitalize

Etymology

From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.

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