Verb

(admitt)

To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take.

A ticket admits one into a playhouse.

They were admitted into his house.

to admit a serious thought into the mind

to admit evidence in the trial of a cause

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

to admit an attorney to practice law

the prisoner was admitted to bail

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess.

the argument or fact is admitted

he admitted his guilt

she admitted taking drugs'' / ''she admitted to taking drugs

* 2011 , Kitty Kelley, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (ISBN 1451674767):

His sister, Patti, also admitted taking drugs,

To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

the words do not admit such a construction.

* Holder

Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.

To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).

circumstance do not admit of this

the text does not admit of this interpretation

To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

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Verb

(hospitaliz)

To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.

(medicine, archaic) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.

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#* 1980 , Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth , Tor (2010), ISBN 978-0-7653-2655-3, page 129:

Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.

#* 1996 , “The Life, the Survival and the Triumph of Franz Gabl of St. Anton”, in Skiing Heritage: Journal of the International Skiing History Association , Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1996), ISSN 1082-2895, page 38:

He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized' him for four weeks. Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again ' hospitalized by a deep infection behind his knee.

#* 2005 , Timothy O’Grady, On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession , St. Martin’s Press (2006), ISBN 978-0-312-33006-4, page 199:

My father had begun his long, slow decline long before that, but subsequently, on each of the anniversaries of her death, he had suffered increasingly debilitating crises that had hospitalized him and left him still more frail than before.

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#* 1999 February 24, "Alan Earle" (username), " Re: Asinine excuse for breeding...", in alt.support.childfree, Usenet:

For example, just this month in Los Angeles a Jewish school principal was beaten and hospitalized by angry Hispanics who were upset because the mostly-Latino school their kids went to didn't also have a Hispanic principal.

#* 2001 , Richard L. Curwin and Allen N. Mendler, Discipline with Dignity , Merrill, ISBN 0130930598, page 198:

One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher.

#* 2007 September 3, "john p" (username), " Re: I Finally Watched September Dawn", in alt.religion.mormon, Usenet:

My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon.