Definition of "hospitalize"

To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.  examples

(medicine, archaic) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

(of an injury, illness, event, or person) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.

1. Said of an injury or illness.  quotations  examples

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   • Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.

     1980, Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth, Tor, published 2010, 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 knee.

     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 1082-2895, page 38

   • My father had begun his long, slow decline long before that, but subsequently, on each of the anniversaries of her death, he had suffered increasingly debilitating crises that had hospitalized him and left him still more frail than before.

     2005, Timothy O’Grady, On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession, St. Martin’s Press, published 2006, page 199

2. Said of an assailant or other person.  quotations  examples

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   • 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, page 198

   • My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon.

     2007 September 3, john p, “Re: I Finally Watched September Dawn”, in alt.religion.mormon‎ (Usenet)