vaccinate (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *vaccinate*:
VERB	body	vaccinate, immunize, immunise, inoculate	perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation

vaccinate > pronunciation
Sounds	vae'ksahneyt
Rhymes	abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt...

English > *vaccinate*: 1 sense > verb 1, body
Meaning	Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody
Examples	"We vaccinate against scarlet fever" "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
Synonyms	immunize, immunise, inoculate
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
Broader	inject, shoot	Give an injection to
Spanish	inmunizar, inocular, vacunar
Catalan	immunitzar, inocular, vacunar
Nouns	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

HyperDic: vaccinate