hospitalize

Definition

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

Etymology

From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.

Example Sentences

• "Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him."
• "He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized him for four weeks. […] ¶ […] ¶ […] Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again hospitalized by a deep infection behind his knee."
• "My father had begun his long, slow decline long before that, but subsequently, on each of the anniversaries of her death, he had suffered increasingly debilitating crises that had hospitalized him and left him still more frail than before."