hospitalizing

verb

present participle of hospitalize
as in treating
to place (someone) in a hospital for care or treatment The doctor wants to hospitalize her for a few days so that he can run some tests.

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Recent Examples of hospitalizing An overnight police chase in Miramar ended with a black SUV overturning into a Tesla dealership parking lot, injuring one and hospitalizing another, authorities say. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026 Lillian once fought back with an iron skillet and beat Q unconscious, hospitalizing him. — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 1 June 2026 Last night, an Air Canada airplane collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing two pilots and hospitalizing scores of passengers. — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026 Low levels of vaccination across the country mean measles outbreaks will continue to occur, needlessly hospitalizing and killing the unvaccinated. — Andrea Uhlig, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026 Derek Borsody, a first-year medical student at UC, remains unconscious, unresponsive and in intensive care months after a balcony fell about 20 feet from a Stetson Street condominium, hospitalizing 10 people, according to a recent lawsuit filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2026 Statewide, the virus seems to be hospitalizing more children than in past years, Graham said. — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 9 Jan. 2026 As of Thursday evening, a manhunt was underway for the man who shot Beam near the Oakland, California community college’s football field, hospitalizing Beam in critical condition and sending the school into lockdown. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025 Flu season was particularly brutal last year, sickening at least 47 million Americans, hospitalizing 610,000 and killing 27,000, according to the CDC. — Liz Szabo, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hospitalizing
  1. treating
  2. nursing
  3. attending
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  • Instead of treating production as a series of separate steps, the model is intended to create a smoother flow of materials, modules and work through the factory.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Surely, that will be consumed by production equipment as the NFL is treating this game like a mini-Super Bowl, complete with the Jonas Brothers performing at halftime.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of treating
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  • Mike, with his sharp features and small, dark hands, is probably at the Silver Spur right now, nursing his glass of vodka, two rocks, no twist.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • At the end, Bjornsson — who had been nursing a knee injury — retained his title, although not everyone made it through unscathed.
    — Rob Tanner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of nursing
Verb
  • An even more literal family reunion also took place over the weekend, with Ye and ex-wife Kim Kardashian both attending their daughter North West’s first headlining show at the Vic Theatre in Chicago on September 5.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Over 6,000 market delegates are attending, up about 1,000 from last year, and hundreds of those are sellers who haven’t attended TIFF in a decade and are flying overseas to be in Toronto.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of attending

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“Hospitalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hospitalizing. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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