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Verb: institutionalize  `in-sti't(y)oo-shu-nu`lIz
  1. Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
    "After the second episode, she had to be institutionalized"
    - commit, institutionalise [Brit], send, charge

Derived forms: institutionalizes, institutionalized, institutionalizing

See also: institution

Type of: transfer

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