Institutionalize (Verb)
Meaning
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison".
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The court ordered that the mentally unstable man be institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital for further evaluation and treatment.
- She fought to prevent her aging mother from being institutionalized and instead sought community care options.
- He was institutionalized for a short time after attempting to take his own life.
- The family reluctantly decided that their loved one needed to be institutionalized to protect him from harming himself.
- After multiple failed attempts to treat her condition at home, they had to institutionalize her in a specialized care facility.