verb
- to admit or confine (a person) to a hospital for medical treatment
Usage: British English spelling; American English uses 'hospitalize'; transitive verb
Examples
- The patient was hospitalised after the accident.
- She was hospitalised for emergency surgery.
- They hospitalised him for observation and tests.
- The elderly man was hospitalised with pneumonia.
- Several people were hospitalised following the incident.
- He spent two weeks hospitalised in the intensive care unit.