INSTITUTIONALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does institutionalise mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTITUTIONALISE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send

Context example:

he was committed to prison

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)