Get to know Hospitalize better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like commit or institutionalize.
Hospitalize meaning
- To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
- To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
- To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
Synonyms of Hospitalize
Using Hospitalize
- The main meaning on this page is: To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital. | To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. | To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
- Useful related words include: hospitalise, commit, institutionalize, institutionalise.
- In the example corpus, hospitalize often appears in combinations such as: to hospitalize.
Context around Hospitalize
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hospitalize
- In this selection, "hospitalize" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, involuntarily, people, four and patients stand out and add context to how "hospitalize" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to hospitalize patients in and cost to hospitalize or imprison. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hospitalize" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hospitalize
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Since March, she has already had to hospitalize four people. (10 words)
These rules are often used in deciding whether or not to hospitalize the person. (14 words)
The cost to keep people healthy is less than the cost to hospitalize or imprison them. (16 words)
New York Mayor Eric Adams is taking a different, albeit controversial, approach: directing law enforcement and emergency response teams to involuntarily hospitalize people who are unhoused and mentally ill if they are a danger to themselves or others. (38 words)
We have been, over the last week, under high pressure, I would say, to be able to hospitalize patients in the I.C.U. and the general infectious-disease ward. (30 words)
Matetzky doesn’t blame any policy decisions for hesitancy to hospitalize, and said it was a product of the highly unusual nature of the current crisis. (26 words)
Example sentences (6)
New York Mayor Eric Adams is taking a different, albeit controversial, approach: directing law enforcement and emergency response teams to involuntarily hospitalize people who are unhoused and mentally ill if they are a danger to themselves or others.
The cost to keep people healthy is less than the cost to hospitalize or imprison them.
Matetzky doesn’t blame any policy decisions for hesitancy to hospitalize, and said it was a product of the highly unusual nature of the current crisis.
Since March, she has already had to hospitalize four people.
We have been, over the last week, under high pressure, I would say, to be able to hospitalize patients in the I.C.U. and the general infectious-disease ward.
These rules are often used in deciding whether or not to hospitalize the person.
Common combinations with hospitalize
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to hospitalize 5×