to vaccinate

Examples

• All

• From 2003 through 2008, between 30,000 and 50,000 dogs were vaccinated against rabies each year.

  Academic text (2009)

• Get your flu shot, and consider getting vaccinated against other diseases, like pneumonia and shingles.

  Academic text (2015)

• The mandate required health care organizations to vaccinate personnel who had direct contact with patients.

  Academic text (2011)

• Did you vaccinate the dogs for Parvo?

  The Dog Lover (2016)

• We distributed medicine and arranged for army doctors to vaccinate the children and conduct clinics for the sick.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Now, Doc Pol is eager to vaccinate the rest of the herd.

  Mars (2024)

• Local health authorities suspect that rabies might be involved and have vaccinated everyone concerned.

  Rabid (1977)

• All players must be vaccinated for cholera, syphilis and shingles before play begins.

  DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)

• The health department plans to vaccinate all children against measles this year.

• Before traveling to tropical regions, it is advisable to vaccinate against yellow fever.

Synonyms

I

to immunize

vsto vaccinate

• Specialized

15 3.9

To give someone a vaccine so they do not get a disease

is the act of giving a vaccine rather than the resulting resistance

I

to inoculate

vsto vaccinate

15 6.3

To put a vaccine into a person or animal so they become immune

focuses specifically on giving a vaccine to create disease resistance

I

to inoculate against

vsto vaccinate

3 6.8

Protect a person from harm, often by giving a vaccine or preparing them to resist bad ideas

is limited to giving a vaccine to create immunity from disease

V

to vaccine

vsto vaccinate

3.1

To give someone medicine that makes their body build protection against a disease

is the other verb form commonly used for the same action

How Resistant

to vaccinate

65 3.7

to immunize

• Specialized

15 3.9

to inoculate

15 6.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology