hospitalize
verb
hos·pi·tal·ize
ˈhä-(ˌ)spi-tə-ˌlīz 
hospitalized; hospitalizing
: to place in a hospital as a patient
Examples of hospitalize in a Sentence
The doctor wants to hospitalize her for a few days so that he can run some tests.
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Several people were killed and others are hospitalized after a multi-vehicle crash in Wyoming caused a fire in a highway tunnel.
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
The cake poisoning, which killed three people and hospitalized three others, occurred on Christmas Eve in the city of Torres in Rio Grande do Sul.
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One of the children was experiencing shortness of breath and was hospitalized.
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
The cake poisoning, which killed three people and hospitalized three others, occurred on Christmas Eve in the city of Torres in Rio Grande do Sul.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Listen to this article A woman was killed and three other people were hospitalized when a trip from a Queens senior residential home turned deadly early Friday, police said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
One of the children was experiencing shortness of breath and was hospitalized.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
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hospitalize
verb
hos·pi·tal·ize
ˈhäs-ˌpit-ᵊl-ˌīz
hospitalized; hospitalizing
: to place in a hospital as a patient
Medical Definition
hospitalize
transitive verb
hos·pi·tal·ize
variants
or chiefly British hospitalise
hospitalized or chiefly British hospitalised; hospitalizing or chiefly British hospitalising
: to place in a hospital as a patient
the child was hospitalized at once for diagnosis and treatment—The Journal of the American Medical Association
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