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institutionalize
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb institutionalize has 1 sense
- institutionalize(v = verb.possession) charge, commit, institutionalise, send - cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" is one way to transfer
Derived form noun institution5
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
OXFORD DICTIONARY
institutionalize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 (as institutionalized adj.) (of a prisoner, a long-term patient, etc.) made apathetic and dependent after a long period in an institution.
2 place or keep (a person) in an institution.
3 convert into an institution; make institutional.
1 (as institutionalized adj.) (of a prisoner, a long-term patient, etc.) made apathetic and dependent after a long period in an institution.
2 place or keep (a person) in an institution.
3 convert into an institution; make institutional.
Derivative
institutionalization n.
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