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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About 20% of unvaccinated people who get measles will be hospitalized, and 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children who are infected will die from complications of the disease, according to the CDC.
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Audrey Dutton, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Vitaly Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, said 19 people had been injured in the city, nine of whom were hospitalized.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Four people were hospitalized, two of them are in serious condition, two are in moderate condition.
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The exhausted director, who blamed the movie's problems on ''politics, money and time constraints,'' was hospitalized with pneumonia and dehydration for two weeks near the end of filming.
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Audrey Dutton, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Vitaly Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, said 19 people had been injured in the city, nine of whom were hospitalized.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Four people were hospitalized, two of them are in serious condition, two are in moderate condition.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
The exhausted director, who blamed the movie's problems on ''politics, money and time constraints,'' was hospitalized with pneumonia and dehydration for two weeks near the end of filming.
—Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hospitalize
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“Hospitalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hospitalize. Accessed 24 Oct. 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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