Definition of "hospitalize" [hos•pi•tal•ize]

• To place in a hospital for treatment, care, or observation. (verb-transitive)

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• "When he finally admitted that his arm felt foreign to his body and that he had a table saw at home in the basement, I had to hospitalize him."
• "To the lady who asked if we had seen the gentle, caring tendency in our husbands before we married them: my husband cared for his terminally ill mother (she had leukemia) up to the time they had to hospitalize her, and then he was at her side until the end."
• "But when you hear advice from parents who have had to hospitalize, move schools and reconsider college just to get their kids healthy, you tend to listen."