hospitalise
hospitalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of hospitalize.
Meaning of hospitalize
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.
- To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
- Said of an injury or illness.
- 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
- 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)
Forms of hospitalise
| third-person singular present | hospitalises |
|---|---|
| present participle | hospitalising |
| past participle | hospitalised |
| past | hospitalised |
Origin of hospitalise
From hospital + -ise.
Words formed from hospitalise
Questions about hospitalise
- What is hospitalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
- Hospitalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of hospitalize.
Words near hospitalise in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hospitalise (page history and authors); hospitalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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