- inoculating, vaccinating - the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the innoculating"
--1 is a kind of protection
--1 has particulars: ring vaccination; variolation, variolizationDerived form: verb vaccinate1
- immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate - perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
--1 is one way to inject, shoot
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun vaccination2, noun vaccination1, noun vaccine1, noun vaccinator1, noun vaccinating1
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