hospitalize

Verb

hospitalize (third-person singular simple present hospitalizes, present participle hospitalizing, simple past and past participle hospitalized)

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. (person, event) 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
   • 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...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...
4. (person, event) 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