Dictionary

hospitalize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/

Etymology

From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.

Meanings

1. To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
2. (archaic) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
3. (of an injury, person, qualifier:event) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization. ▸ Said of an injury or illness.
   • My father had begun his long, slow decline long before that, but subsequently, on each of the anniversaries of her death, he had suffered increasingly debilitating crises that had hospitalized him and left him still more frail than before. 2005, Timothy O’Grady, On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession, St. Martin’s Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 199:
   • Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him. 1980, Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth, Tor, published 2010, →ISBN, page 129:
   • He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized him for four weeks. […] ¶ […] ¶ […] Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again hospitalized by a deep infection behind his knee. 1996, “The Life, the Survival and the Triumph of Franz Gabl of St. Anton”, in Skiing Heritage: Journal of the International Skiing History Association, Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1996), ISSN 1082-2895, page 38
4. (of an injury, person, qualifier:event) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization. ▸ Said of an assailant or other person.
   • For example, just this month in Los Angeles a Jewish school principal was beaten and hospitalized by angry Hispanics who were upset because the mostly-Latino school their kids went to didn't also have a Hispanic principal. 1999 February 24, Alan Earle, “Re: Asinine excuse for breeding...”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
   • One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher. 2001, Richard L. Curwin, Allen N. Mendler, Discipline with Dignity, Merrill, →ISBN, page 198:
   • My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon. 2007 September 3, john p, “Re: I Finally Watched September Dawn”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):

Forms

Deriveds

dehospitalize · hospitalizable · hospitalization · rehospitalize · hospitalizer

Translations (40)

he אִשְׁפֵּז (to send to a hospital) · cmn 使住院 (to send to a hospital) · fr hospitaliser (to send to a hospital) · nl in een ziekenhuis opnemen (to send to a hospital) · tr hastanelik etmek (to cause to require hospitalization) · vi nhập viện (to send to a hospital) · ca hospitalitzar (to send to a hospital) · sw laza (to send to a hospital) · de ins Krankenhaus bringen/einweisen (to send to a hospital) · nl opnemen (to send to a hospital) · af opneem (to send to a hospital) · ru госпитализи́ровать (to send to a hospital) · pt hospitalizar (to send to a hospital) · ru помести́ть в больни́цу (to send to a hospital) · be шпіталізава́ць (to send to a hospital) · da hospitalisere (to send to a hospital) · tr hastaneye kaldırmak (to send to a hospital) · bg хоспитализи́рам (to send to a hospital) · uk госпіталізува́ти (to send to a hospital) · da indlægge (to send to a hospital) · pl hospitalizować (to send to a hospital) · cs hospitalizovat (to send to a hospital) · oc espitalizar (to send to a hospital) · sv lägga in (på sjukhus) (to send to a hospital) · sv föras till sjukhus (to send to a hospital) · pl umieścić w szpitalu (to send to a hospital) · ja 入院させる (to send to a hospital) · it ospedalizzare (to send to a hospital) · gl hospitalizar (to send to a hospital) · tr hastaneye yatırmak (to send to a hospital) · vi đưa vào bệnh viện (to send to a hospital) · fi sijoittaa sairaalaan (to send to a hospital) · es hospitalizar (to send to a hospital) · hu kórházba szállít (to send to a hospital) · vi đưa vào nhà thương (to send to a hospital) · ko 입원시키다 (to send to a hospital) · ru помеща́ть в больни́цу (to send to a hospital) · af hospitaliseer (to send to a hospital) · fi saattaa sairaalakuntoon (to send to a hospital) · de hospitalisieren (to send to a hospital)