单词 | hospitalize |
释义 | hospitalize (once / 3683 pages) v To hospitalize is either to check a patient into a hospital, or to injure someone seriously enough that they need to be treated in a hospital. If you get a bad infection, your doctor may decide to hospitalize you. Any time doctors decide that a patient ought to be treated intensively or needs a serious kind of surgery, they hospitalize their patient. It's more common to find this verb in the phrase "was hospitalized," as in "My favorite basketball player was hospitalized after collapsing on the court." Grammar snobs have long disapproved of verbs formed with the -ize suffix, and hospitalize was controversial when it was coined around 1870. WORD FAMILYhospitalize: hospitalization, hospitalized, hospitalizing+/hospital: hospitalise, hospitalize, hospitals/hospitalise: hospitalisation, hospitalised/hospitalization: hospitalizations USAGE EXAMPLESOver the next two years, he was hospitalized about 50 times, and he missed much of fourth and fifth grade. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Officials say a firefighter was hospitalized with injuries that aren’t considered life threatening. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Officials say he was hospitalized and is expected to survive. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) v admit into a hospital Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high Syn|Hyper hospitalise charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution |
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