to inoculate
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6.3
- verb
- /ɪˈnɑkjʊˌleɪt/
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vacunar
- After consulting with the doctor, I decided to inoculate my puppy with the necessary vaccines.
- inoculate animals
- inoculate mice
- inoculated intranasally
But I do, I think you do would have to aerosolize it, not just treat or you could treat organisms and and and inoculate Guinea mice or Guinea pigs.
- But I do, I think you do would have to aerosolize it, not just treat or you could treat organisms and and and inoculate Guinea mice or Guinea pigs.
Examples
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I mean, I'm immune to a number of really, really terrible diseases because I was inoculated against them as a child.
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Most countries stopped... inoculating against smallpox in 1979.
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Isn't that all the more reason to inoculate her child?
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You must be inoculated and return to your homes immediately and stay inside.
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The whole village is inoculated.
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The doctors want someone to be inoculated with a new vaccine.
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It's sort of like making sure that children are inoculated against diseases they might encounter later in life.
Academic text (2002) -
For instance, in 1966, 100,000 people were inoculated against smallpox in Cabo Delgado.
Academic text (1992) -
The nurse will inoculate the children against measles during the clinic today.
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To ensure community health, the clinic aims to inoculate over a thousand residents this weekend.
Synonyms
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3.7
Give a shot to a person or animal to protect them from disease
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3.9
To give someone a vaccine so they do not get a disease
To give someone medicine that makes their body build protection against a disease
Phrasal Verbs
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6.8
Protect a person from harm, often by giving a vaccine or preparing them to resist bad ideas
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Surface Forms
Morphology
inoculate = in + ocul + ate
The modern medical sense ('give a vaccine') is a metaphorical extension from the older grafting sense and the combining form 'ocul' is not a productive or recognizable English base for B1 learners, so the meaning is not derivable from the visible parts.
Etymology
Inoculate comes from Latin parts in- 'in' and oculus 'eye', where gardeners called a plant bud an 'eye' and would put that 'eye' into another plant. Doctors used the same image later — putting a very small bit of a disease into a person to make them strong — so to inoculate today means to give a vaccine.