hospitalize

== English == === Alternative forms === (UK spelling) hospitalise === Etymology === From hospital +‎ -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhɒspɪtəˌlaɪz/ === Verb === hospitalize (third-person singular simple present hospitalizes, present participle hospitalizing, simple past and past participle hospitalized) To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital. (medicine, archaic) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. (of an injury, illness, event, or person) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization. Said of an injury or illness. 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: 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. Said of an assailant or other person. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Portuguese == === Verb === hospitalize inflection of hospitalizar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative