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Vaccinate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To inoculate with a vaccine in order to produce immunity to an infectious disease, such as diphtheria or typhus.

verb-intransitive. To perform vaccinations or a vaccination.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows; now, generally, to administer (by injection or otherwise) any vaccine with the objective of rendering the recipient immune to an infectious disease. One who has been thus immunized by vaccination is said to be vaccinated against a particular disease. One may be thus immunized (vaccinated) also by oral ingestion or inhalation of a vaccine.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To inoculate with the cowpox, by means of vaccine matter or lymph taken directly or indirectly from the cow, for the purpose of procuring immunity from smallpox or of mitigating its attack.

In a general sense, to inoculate with the modified virus of any specific disease, in order to produce that disease in a mild form or to prevent its attack.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation

Word Usage

"We talk amongst ourselves about various things; yesterdays hot topic was H1N1 and the vaccine – “to vaccinate or not to vaccinate, that is the question”."

Verb Form

vaccinated vaccinates vaccinating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

shoot inject

Form

vaccinated vaccinating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

inoculate