Usually means: Admit patient for medical care.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word hospitalize:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hospitalize: Merriam-Webster
  2. hospitalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hospitalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hospitalize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hospitalize: Vocabulary.com
  6. hospitalize: Wordnik
  7. hospitalize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hospitalize: Wiktionary
  9. hospitalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hospitalize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hospitalize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hospitalize: Dictionary.com
  13. hospitalize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hospitalize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hospitalize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hospitalize: Rhymezone
  17. Hospitalize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hospitalize: FreeDictionary.org
  19. hospitalize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hospitalize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. hospitalize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hospitalize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hospitalize: Medical dictionary

(Note: See hospitalization as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
verb:  (medicine, archaic) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
verb:  (of an injury, illness, event, or person) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
verb:  Said of an injury or illness.
verb:  Said of an assailant or other person.

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