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institutionalize
[ in-sti-too-shuh-nl-ahyz, -tyoo- ]
verb (used with object)
- to make institutional.
- to make into or treat as an institution:
the danger of institutionalizing racism.
- to place or confine in an institution, especially one for the care of mental illness, alcoholism, etc.
institutionalize
/ ˌɪԲɪˈːʃəəˌɪ /
verb
- tr; often passive to subject to the deleterious effects of confinement in an institution
a mental patient who was institutionalized into boredom and apathy
- tr to place in an institution
- to make or become an institution
Derived Forms
- ˌԲپˌٳܳپDzԲˈپDz, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·پ·ٳ·پDz····پDz [in-sti-too-sh, uh, -nl-ahy-, zey, -sh, uh, n, -tyoo-], noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of institutionalize1
Example Sentences
Today, in more mundane matters, the distaste for accountability has been institutionalized throughout the government.
After his retirement, his lifelong anxiety and depression worsened, and he was, for a while, institutionalized.
Today, however, the scourge is on the dangerous brink of being fully institutionalized in Washington, D.C., courtesy of the Trump administration.
That sin was the institutionalized system of the enforced, confined education of children descended from the original Americans in order to purge them of everything that made them Indian.
Instead, we are bracing for the start of institutionalized violence from above.
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