hospitalize

verb5

1. •
   To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
2. •
   To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
3. •
   Said of an injury or illness.

   • Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him. — 1980
4. •
   Said of an assailant or other person.

   • One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher. — 2001
5. •
   (no longer used) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.