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VACCINATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they vaccinate ... he / she / it vaccinates
Past simple: vaccinated
Past participle: vaccinated
-ing form: vaccinating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
Example:
The nurse vaccinated the children in the school
Synonyms:
immunise; immunize; inoculate; vaccinate
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "vaccinate" is one way to...):
inject; shoot (give an injection to)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
vaccinating (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity)
vaccination (taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease)
vaccination (the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine)
vaccinator (a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases)
vaccine (immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies)
