hospitalize B2 Topic:Health & Medicine US /ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/ See IPA manual Freq #65517 Meanings 1 verb To take someone into a hospital for treatment. I had to be hospitalized because my blood pressure was too high. 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 AI details From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize. Topics Health & Medicine Actions & Processes External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # hospitalize **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** verb **IPA (US):** /ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/ **Frequency rank:** 65517 ## Meanings 1. To take someone into a hospital for treatment. 2. To injure or make someone ill enough to need hospital care. ## Examples - I had to be hospitalized because my blood pressure was too high. - The crash hospitalized three of the passengers. ## Derived Forms - dehospitalize - hospitalizable - hospitalization - hospitalizer - rehospitalize ## Etymology From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize. ## AI Etymology Hospitalize comes from hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern verbal form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main senses are “To take someone into a hospital for treatment” and “To injure or make someone ill enough to need hospital care”. ## Topics - Health & Medicine - Actions & Processes markdown