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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Additionally, one in five of those people end up hospitalized, according to the CDC.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Ten cases were serious enough that the travelers needed to be hospitalized.
—Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2025
Roughly 15 have to be hospitalized for acute symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and seizures.
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Within three months, she was hospitalized with a dangerously low heart rate.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Ten cases were serious enough that the travelers needed to be hospitalized.
—Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2025
Roughly 15 have to be hospitalized for acute symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and seizures.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
Within three months, she was hospitalized with a dangerously low heart rate.
—Neveen Radwan, Mercury News, 9 May 2025
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“Hospitalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hospitalize. Accessed 19 May. 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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