Confined vs Hospitalized - What's the difference?
confined | hospitalized |
(confine)
not free to move
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
(hospitalize)
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,
#* 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,
#* 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,
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#* 1999 February 24, "Alan Earle" (username), "
#* 2001 , Richard L. Curwin and Allen N. Mendler, Discipline with Dignity , Merrill, ISBN 0130930598, page 198:
#* 2007 September 3, "john p" (username), "
As verbs the difference between confined and hospitalized
is that confined is (confine) while hospitalized is (hospitalize).As an adjective confined
is not free to move.confined
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)confine
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Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
Synonyms
* (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----hospitalized
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Verb
(head)hospitalize
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Alternative forms
* (UK spelling) hospitaliseVerb
(hospitaliz)page 129:
- Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.
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.
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.
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.
- One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher.
Re: I Finally Watched September Dawn", in alt.religion.mormon, Usenet:
- My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon.
