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INSTITUTIONALIZE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does institutionalize mean?

• INSTITUTIONALIZE (verb)
The verb INSTITUTIONALIZE has 1 sense:

1. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

Familiarity information: INSTITUTIONALIZE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• INSTITUTIONALIZE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

institutionalise; institutionalize; commit; send; charge

Context examples:

After the second episode, she had to be committed / he was committed to prison

Hypernyms (to "institutionalize" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "institutionalize"):

hospitalise; hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

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