hospitalizing

verb

present participle of hospitalize
as in treating
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 hospitalizing Over the summer, a salmonella outbreak linked to pumpkin seeds infected 81 people in France, hospitalizing six. — Erin Jones, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 An overnight police chase in Miramar ended with a black SUV overturning into a Tesla dealership parking lot, injuring one and hospitalizing another, authorities say. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026 Lillian once fought back with an iron skillet and beat Q unconscious, hospitalizing him. — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 1 June 2026 Last night, an Air Canada airplane collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing two pilots and hospitalizing scores of passengers. — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026 Low levels of vaccination across the country mean measles outbreaks will continue to occur, needlessly hospitalizing and killing the unvaccinated. — Andrea Uhlig, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026 Derek Borsody, a first-year medical student at UC, remains unconscious, unresponsive and in intensive care months after a balcony fell about 20 feet from a Stetson Street condominium, hospitalizing 10 people, according to a recent lawsuit filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2026 Statewide, the virus seems to be hospitalizing more children than in past years, Graham said. — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 9 Jan. 2026 As of Thursday evening, a manhunt was underway for the man who shot Beam near the Oakland, California community college’s football field, hospitalizing Beam in critical condition and sending the school into lockdown. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hospitalizing
  1. treating
  2. nursing
  3. attending
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  • Rather than treating logistics and air defense as entirely separate missions, the same basic platform could support different tasks through modular equipment and mission-specific configurations.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The first generation to grow up with free trades on their phones is treating the election as a market event.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of treating
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  • The Saints could be without star quarterback Brailon Davis who’s nursing an injury, but backup Bodie Brown has stepped in and completed 32 of 45 for 454 yards and seven touchdowns in the past two games.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Orlando has spent decades nursing an enormous inferiority complex to the bigger, older, richer, and more historically relevant cities in Florida, the Southeast, and the East Coast.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of nursing
Verb
  • The reforms focus on eligibility and work requirements for able-bodied adults, which can also be satisfied by attending school, participating in job training, or volunteering.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Jenna Luna, who also has two children attending Stove Prairie, said the possibility of losing their school came as a surprise.
    — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of attending

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“Hospitalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hospitalizing. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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