hospitalizing

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
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)