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internar

to admit (to hospital)

verb een-tehr-NAHR Rare
Body & Health Medicine

Also means

to commit (to an institution)

Usage Note

Internar is the standard verb for admitting someone to a hospital, psychiatric facility, or boarding school — lo internaron en el hospital (they admitted him to hospital). The reflexive internarse en means to go deep into a place (internarse en el bosque — to go deep into the forest). The related noun internado means a boarding school.

Examples

"Tuvieron que internarlo de urgencia."

Natural Translation

They had to admit him as an emergency.

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