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HOSPITALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hospitalise mean? 

HOSPITALISE (verb)
  The verb HOSPITALISE has 1 sense:

1. admit into a hospitalplay

  Familiarity information: HOSPITALISE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOSPITALISE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they hospitalise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it hospitalises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: hospitalised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: hospitalised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: hospitalising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Admit into a hospital

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

hospitalise; hospitalize

Context example:

Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high

Hypernyms (to "hospitalise" is one way to...):

charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send (cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

hospitalisation (placing in medical care in a hospital)


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