hospitalize

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   admit into a hospital

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

2. 2
   verb

   To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.

   Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.

3. 3
   verb

   To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.

4. 4
   verb

   To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

Etymology

From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.