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Confined, either voluntarily or involuntarily (e.g., a hospital, prison, or nursing home).
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To place a person in a mental hospital
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officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution; "had hopes of rehabilitating the institutionalized juvenile delinquents"
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given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system; "institutionalized graft"; "institutionalized suicide as practiced in Japan"
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