Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hospitalize \Hos"pi*tal*ize\, v. t.
(Med.) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. [Archaic]
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To place (a person) in a hospital in order to receive medical treatment, observation, or for rest.
Syn: hospitalise.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1873, from hospital + -ize. "Freq[uently] commented on as an unhappy formation" [OED]. Related: hospitalized; hospitalizing.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital. 2 (context medicine archaic English) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. 3 (context of an injury, illness, event, or person English) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization. 4 # (non-gloss definition: Said of an injury or illness.) 5 # (non-gloss definition: Said of an assailant or other person.) vb. 1 To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital. 2 (context medicine archaic English) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. 3 (context of an injury, illness, event, or person English) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization. 4 # (non-gloss definition: Said of an injury or illness.) 5 # (non-gloss definition: Said of an assailant or other person.)
WordNet
v. admit into a hospital; "Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high" [syn: hospitalise]
Usage examples of "hospitalize".
To get Louis out, he would be hospitalized on some fraudulent diagnosis, for which Berel says he has the necessary connections in the Health Department.
The two people with dibs against me are almost certainly hospitalized.
I was informed this would most likely be the case when I was hospitalized ear- lier this year.
Last month, as her ability to swallow had begun to disappear, she had been hospitalized for the insertion of something called a PEG, a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, a little plastic button that allowed a liquid diet to be fed directly into her stomach four times a day.
She pauperized gigolos, she spayed studs, she hospitalized heartbreakers.
Singer Tom Paine of the San Francisco cult band Commonsense was hospitalized at University of California Medical Center with severe anemia, on the same day his group was to audition for the Fillmore.
Warren Emerson had already been transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center for his craniotomy, and would remain hospitalized for at least week.
Warren Emerson had already been transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center for his craniotomy, and would remain hospitalized for at least a week.
Playing mind games with physicians and nurses-with the health-care system itself Adult Munchausen patients manage to get hospitalized repeatedly, medicated needlessly, even cut open on the operating table.
The courthouse razed to the ground, the judge, the superlawyers, many others hospitalized for third-degree burns.
He had a conniption fit for two days, and then he had another stroke and had to be hospitalized all over again.
On Earth they would have been hospitalized against contamination, but there were no bloodborne diseases in this system.
The first patient to be hospitalized happens to be one of the cofounders of the clinic, Dr.
Once, there was a case of a patient suffering from atopic dermatitis whose condition suddenly worsened and it was necessary for him to be hospitalized because pus started to appear all over his body, and corporal temperature increased.
Miss Griffen is rumoured to have undergone a lengthy struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, having been hospitalized on several occasions.