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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
Other 51Թ Forms
- institutionalization noun
- ˌԲپˌٳܳپDzԲˈپDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of institutionalize1
Example Sentences
Dehumanizing the targets of institutionalized mistreatment and torture proved to be both the pretext for and a product of the process.
Before the DOE was established, many children with disabilities did not receive an education and were institutionalized and siloed from the community.
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.
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.
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