to put in hospital
33
3.2
- phrasal verb
- /pʊt ɪn ˈhɒspɪtəl/
- UK
:
ingresar en
- They put him in the hospital and took her to jail.
- put in mental hospital
- put in psychiatric hospital
- accident put in hospital
Dogs like this do pull people on their face, do put people in hospital.
- Dogs like this do pull people on their face, do put people in hospital.
- And then my nan turns up and my mum's put in hospital.
- I know RIP though that bee that died because they stung someone or did they just get put in hospital?
- But my dad, yeah, he got put in the same mental hospital for homicidal tendencies and, you know, a break in reality or something.
Examples
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I might have put him in the hospital.
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Another such night might put him in the hospital.
Fiction book (2000) -
We're gonna have to put him in a hospital.
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I thought he was gonna put you in hospital out there.
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You put him in the hospital.
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I put him in the hospital yesterday.
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"The doctor said he might have to put her in the hospital," he said.
Fiction book (1997) -
Did he immediately get put in the hospital?
Fiction book (1997) -
The accident put two brakemen in the hospital.
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The accident was serious enough to put him in hospital for several days.
Synonyms
87
3.9
Take someone into a hospital for medical care
Antonyms
How Formal
- US
87
3.9
- UK
33
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'put' (to place/bring into a state), 'in' (inside), and 'hospital' (medical facility), so a learner who knows those words can infer placing/admitting someone to hospital for treatment. This is a transparent, compositional pattern (similar constructions exist in many languages), making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Put in hospital shows a simple image: someone is put in a hospital, carried or led into a room and placed on a bed to get help from doctors. That's why it means 'to admit someone to a hospital for treatment'.