(to) hospitalize
111-ize — UK [aɪz] / US suffix 1) used with some nouns and adjectives to make verbs meaning to become or make something become something legalize industrialize liquidize 2) used with some nouns to make verbs meaning to put someone in a particular place… …
112hospitalise — UK [ˈhɒspɪt(ə)laɪz] / US [ˈhɑspɪt(ə)lˌaɪz] hospitalize …
113-ize — cvb +brit. use a verb forming suffix occurring orig. in loanwords from Greek that have entered English through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the …
114Munchausen syndrome — Mun′chausen syn drome n. pat a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self induced pathology in order to receive medical treatment • Etymology: 1950–55; named after Baron von… …
115DNH — • do not hospitalize [order] …
116hospitalise — /ˈhɒspətəlaɪz / (say hospuhtuhluyz) verb (t) (hospitalised, hospitalising) to place for medical care, etc., in a hospital. Also, hospitalize. –hospitalisation /hɒspətəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ (say hospuhtuhluy zayshuhn), noun …
117American English — 1. general. Fowler in Modern English Usage (1926) did not include an entry on American English and said little on the subject, although he cast occasional aspersions on so called ‘undesirable aliens’ (such as belittle). Since then attitudes to… …
118-ize — ize, ise in verbs 1. spelling. The primary rule is that all words of the type authorize/authorise, civilize/civilise, legalize/legalise, where there is a choice of ending, may be legitimately spelt with either ize or ise throughout the English… …
119-ise in verbs — ize, ise in verbs 1. spelling. The primary rule is that all words of the type authorize/authorise, civilize/civilise, legalize/legalise, where there is a choice of ending, may be legitimately spelt with either ize or ise throughout the English… …
120verbs from nouns — By a process called ‘conversion’, verbs have for several centuries been formed from nouns (and occasionally adjectives), by using the same word (e.g. to question, to knife, to quiz, to service, to access, to premiere, and to text [= send a text… …
