IMMUNISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immunise mean? 

• IMMUNISE (verb)
  The verb IMMUNISE has 2 senses:

1. law: grant immunity from prosecution

2. perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation

  Familiarity information: IMMUNISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUNISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they immunise    ... he / she / it immunises   
Past simple: immunised   
Past participle: immunised   
-ing form: immunising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Law: grant immunity from prosecution

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

immunise; immunize

Hypernyms (to "immunise" is one way to...):

protect (shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

immunise; immunize; inoculate; vaccinate

Context example:

The nurse vaccinated the children in the school

Hypernyms (to "immunise" 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

 Context examples 

In other words, these RNA molecules are likely acting to immunise the bees against infections.

(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)

This suggested that the immunising RNA fragments were being passed among colony members as well as across generations.

(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)