hospitalize

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

2. (of an injury, illness, event, or person) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.Examples: "Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him."; "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."; "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."

3. (of an injury, illness, event, or person) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.Examples: "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."; "One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher."; "My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon."