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hospitalize
  1. To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
  2. (medicine) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
  3. (of an injury, illness, event, or person) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
    1. Said of an injury or illness.
    2. Said of an assailant or other person.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “She concluded Aliah was suicidal but did not hospitalize her, referring her instead to an emergency clinic for further evaluation.”
      “As her condition worsened, pressures mount on her doctor to refer her to another physician or to hospitalize her.”
      “It's things that happen to people, things that hospitalize people, and so on.”
host
  1. To perform the role of a host.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To lodge at an inn.
  3. (computing) To run software made available to a remote user or process.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “We plan to host an event featuring talks from some of the country's foremost experts on nutrition.”
      “Labor Day, the last holiday weekend of summer, is a great excuse to host the neighbors for a final celebratory barbecue.”
      “She used to host a weekly news show on the local TV network.”
hospitate
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To receive hospitality; to be a guest.
hospitalise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of hospitalize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Instead of aloha from Hawaii, Spruce is greeted in the Arctic by angry mosquitoes that proceed to hospitalise him.”
      “But Keaton was never credible as someone who could hospitalise a dozen muggers before vaulting over a two-storey fence.”
      “The main objective was to hospitalise in Monaco 50 children whose pathologies were not operable in their countries of origin.”
hosting
hostess
  1. To host, as a woman.
hospitalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hospitalise
hospitalizes
hospitalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hospitalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Some 9,000 British people die every year from alcohol-related illness and hundreds of thousands are hospitalised or rendered insensate.”
      “Most defendants who were hospitalised had diagnoses of schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder.”
      “Liam had been hospitalised prior to that game but played in the corner forward position, being marked by Jim Hennessy of Paulstown.”
hospitalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hospitalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “When a mother or an infant is hospitalized, lactation should be continued if possible.”
      “A teen boy, recently diagnosed with leukemia, retold the story of why he was hospitalized from his platelets' point of view.”
      “Four teenagers consumed hallucinogenic and poisonous jimson weed Thursday night and were hospitalized with fast heartbeats and impaired vision.”
hosts
hospitated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hospitate
hostessed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hostess
  2. Examples:
    1. “Later in January, the alum club hostessed the initiation brunch at the Pi Beta Phi chapter house. It was thrilling to see so many girls with such enthusiasm!”
hospitalizing
  1. present participle of hospitalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Under managed care, the fiscal incentive for hospitalizing acutely ill nursing home residents with end-stage dementia goes away.”
      “By the summer of 2000, Mr. Ryan was refusing medication, and his therapists considered hospitalizing him again.”
      “Jeneen Interlandi, who wrote this week's cover story about hospitalizing her father because of his struggle with bipolar disorder, is a science and health reporter and 2013 Nieman fellow at Harvard University.”
hospitalising
  1. present participle of hospitalise
hosted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of host
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A bon vivant who piloted his own plane and hosted the Dutch royal family aboard his yacht, Something Cool, Freddy had an adman's pizzazz.”
      “Physically shutting down the site would be very difficult given that it is hosted overseas.”
      “When England hosted the 1966 World Cup, six of the eight venues used were grounds designed in part or in whole by Archibald Leitch.”
hospitating
  1. present participle of hospitate
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