institutionalize
verb (used with object)
to make institutional.
institutionalized
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past participleof institutionalize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof institutionalize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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The words are literally institutionalized, engraved on a bell at the UC Santa Barbara campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Resurrectionists” – body snatchers – exhumed the recently buried, disproportionately targeting the poor, the institutionalized and those without family protection or the financial means to guard graves.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
“It might actually be worse because there’s nothing institutionalized about any of this.”
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Nothing about the very obvious messages here—about colonialism, religious fanaticism, institutionalized violence and the exploitation of native peoples—amounts to a news flash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
In the winter of that year, after yet another breakdown with hallucinations and hissing internal voices, he was institutionalized.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
