verb
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
adjective
- Officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution.
- usage: "had hopes of rehabilitating the institutionalized juvenile delinquents"
- synonyms: institutionalized
- Given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system.
- usage: "institutionalized graft"; "institutionalized suicide as practiced in Japan"
- synonyms: institutionalized
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