VACCINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vaccinate mean? 

• VACCINATE (verb)
  The verb VACCINATE has 1 sense:

1. perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation

  Familiarity information: VACCINATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VACCINATE (verb)

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

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 "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)

 Context examples 

All children younger than 5 years of age should be vaccinated with the Hib vaccine.

(Haemophilus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Since the Mass Vaccination Campaign on 20 Nov 2019, the Ministry has successfully vaccinated 58,150 individuals.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

If we can vaccinate with this protein, it may allow us to protect individuals at highest risk for severe illness.

(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

Nine out of 10 animals vaccinated with IV BCG were highly protected; six showed no detectable infection in any tissue tested and three had only very low counts of Mtb bacteria in lung tissue.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)

The study's findings also show the vaccine is effective post-exposure, which makes it suitable for ring vaccination, the anti-outbreak strategy used in the study, in which everyone who has come into contact with a confirmed case is vaccinated to prevent the illness from spreading.

(Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine, Wikinews)

Infants with the highest Bifidobacterium levels when they were vaccinated before 15 weeks of age had responses to tuberculosis, polio (oral), tetanus, and hepatitis B vaccines that were from 42 percent to 107 percent higher than infants with the lowest Bifidobacterium levels.

(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Six months after vaccination, the researchers exposed groups of vaccinated rhesus macaques (immunized via ID, AE or IV routes) and a group of unvaccinated macaques to a virulent strain of Mtb by introducing the bacteria directly into the animals’ lungs.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)