hospitalize

verb

Etymology: From hospital + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hotelize.

1. To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
2. To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
3. To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.

   “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.”

4. To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.

   “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.”