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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they institutionalize    ... he / she / it institutionalizes   
Past simple: institutionalized   
Past participle: institutionalized   
-ing form: institutionalizing   

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 "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

Derivation:

institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)