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INSTITUTIONALISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they institutionalise ... he / she / it institutionalises
Past simple: institutionalised
Past participle: institutionalised
-ing form: institutionalising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
Example:
he was committed to prison
Synonyms:
charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "institutionalise" is one way to...):
transfer (move from one place to another)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "institutionalise"):
hospitalise; hospitalize (admit into a hospital)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
institution (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new)
institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)
