hospitalize
verb (used with object)
to place in a hospital for medical care or observation.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Instead, because of culture and history, they "actually believe that the dissidents they are hospitalizing, or keeping in hospitals, are ill."
From Time Magazine Archive
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