| Meaning | Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Examples | - "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"
- "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
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| Synonyms | immunize, immunise, inoculate |
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| 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 |
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| Broader | inject, shoot | Give an injection to |
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| Spanish | inmunizar, inocular, vacunar |
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| Catalan | immunitzar, inocular, vacunar |
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| Nouns | vaccinating | the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity |
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| 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 |
