Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To place in a hospital for treatment, care, or observation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Med.), Archaic To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
- transitive verb To place (a person) in a hospital in order to receive medical treatment, observation, or for rest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To send to
hospital ; toadmit (a person) to hospital. - verb medicine, archaic To render (a building)
unfit forhabitation , by long continued use as ahospital . - verb To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb admit into a hospital
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Examples
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I'd see the patient every day, or hospitalize the patient for months, if necessary.
Dora Calott Wang, M.D.: It's Easier to Get a Gun Than Mental Health Care M.D. Dora Calott Wang 2011
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His doctor would only tell you to hospitalize him for psychiatric evaluation.
The Conquest of Space, and Other Dreams « A Fly in Amber 2010
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That's a step in the right direction, since complications from the infection hospitalize about 175,000 people a year and kill nearly 5,000.
Consumer Reports: Adults can benefit from flu, shingles, pneumonia vaccines Post 2010
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I'd see the patient every day, or hospitalize the patient for months, if necessary.
Dora Calott Wang, M.D.: It's Easier to Get a Gun Than Mental Health Care M.D. Dora Calott Wang 2011
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That's a step in the right direction, since complications from the infection hospitalize about 175,000 people a year and kill nearly 5,000.
Consumer Reports: Adults can benefit from flu, shingles, pneumonia vaccines Post 2010
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But when you hear advice from parents who have had to hospitalize, move schools and reconsider college just to get their kids healthy, you tend to listen.
Abi Cotler O'Roarty: The Race Against Homework Abi Cotler O'Roarty 2011
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To the lady who asked if we had seen the gentle, caring tendency in our husbands before we married them: my husband cared for his terminally ill mother (she had leukemia) up to the time they had to hospitalize her, and then he was at her side until the end.
When You Are Sick 2009
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When he finally admitted that his arm felt foreign to his body and that he had a table saw at home in the basement, I had to hospitalize him.
Gary W. Small, M.D.: Surgery, Identity and the Body M.D. Gary W. Small 2010
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But when you hear advice from parents who have had to hospitalize, move schools and reconsider college just to get their kids healthy, you tend to listen.
Abi Cotler O'Roarty: The Race Against Homework Abi Cotler O 2011
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When you went to the doctor and you had to hospitalize you new what amount the hospital charged and what the doctor got for you service.
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