hospitalized

past tense of hospitalize
as in treated
to place (someone) in a hospital for care or treatment The doctor wants to hospitalize her for a few days so that he can run some tests.

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Recent Examples of hospitalized Years later, after Leslie experiences severe financial difficulty and is hospitalized, both parents become more present. — Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026 Jones had been hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, while awaiting a transplant, Drinkwitz said during a news conference Tuesday. — Chantz Martin Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Castronovo was later reported to been hospitalized at a local facility following the unspecified medical emergency. — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026 About one in 10 children under age 5 have been hospitalized, CDC data shows. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 One person was hospitalized after a shooting between neighbors Thursday in Fort Worth, according to police. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026 Four others were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity, police said. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Two firefighters were hospitalized with heat exhaustion after battling a fire that spread across multiple floors of a downtown Sacramento building early Thursday, the Sacramento Fire Department said. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Christa Pike, the woman who survived an execution attempt in Tennessee earlier this week, remains hospitalized in critical condition, her lawyers said in a new statement Friday. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hospitalized
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  • Those albums treated homecoming as a means of rebirth and reclamation; creole culture moves on the same wavelength but is more coy about the references.
    — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Later, hundreds of protesters gathered outside New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in upper Manhattan where the man who was shot was being treated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
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  • Dean Fryer, the restaurant’s namesake, nursed a pint outside while chatting with creative director Nicholas Blechman.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Plastic water bottles pile up at shrines to Difunta Correa, who legend says miraculously nursed her infant son after dying of thirst in the desert.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
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  • Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev attended a ceremony at Thessaloniki's Museum of Byzantine Civilization, where the remains were kept, before the handover.
    — COSTAS KANTOURIS, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • About 285,000 attended last year, making the United States the festival’s largest source of overseas visitors.
    — Erik Kirschbaum, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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“Hospitalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hospitalized. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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