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Verb: hospitalize  'hós-pi-tu-lIz
  1. Admit into a hospital
    "Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high"
    - hospitalise [Brit]

Derived forms: hospitalizes, hospitalized, hospitalizing

See also: hospital, hospitalization

Type of: charge, commit, institutionalise [Brit], institutionalize, send