Definition of hospitalizing Hospitalizing
hos•pi•tal•iz•ing
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hospitalising
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hospitalizing
What does hospitalizing mean?
Wiktionary 
- hospitalizing (Verb)
Present participle of hospitalize.
Part of speech
🔤- hospitalizing, verb, gerund of hospitalize (infinitive).
WordNet
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| hospitalize - admit into a hospital; "Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high" | ||
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| institutionalise, institutionalize, commit, send, charge cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" | ||
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Wiktionary
- hospitalize (Verb)
To send to hospital; to admit a person to hospital. - hospitalize (Verb)
To render a building unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. - hospitalize (Verb)
To cause a person to require hospitalization. - hospitalize (Verb)
1980, Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth, Tor 2010, ISBN 978-0-7653-2655-3, page 129. - hospitalize (Verb)
Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him. - hospitalize (Verb)
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. - hospitalize (Verb)
2005, Timothy O’Grady, On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession, St. Martin’s Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-312-33006-4, page 199. - hospitalize (Verb)
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. - hospitalize (Verb)
1999 February 24, "Alan Earle" username, " Re: Asinine excuse for breeding... ", in alt. support. childfree, Usenet. - hospitalize (Verb)
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. - hospitalize (Verb)
2001, Richard L. Curwin and Allen N. Mendler, Discipline with Dignity, Merrill, ISBN 0130930598, page 19. - hospitalize (Verb)
One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher. - hospitalize (Verb)
2007 September 3, "john p" username, " Re: I Finally Watched September Dawn", in alt. religion. mormon, Usenet. - hospitalize (Verb)
My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hospitalize (v. t.)
To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
Part of speech
🔤- hospitalize, verb, present, 1st person singular of hospitalize (infinitive).
- hospitalize, verb (infinitive).
