VACCINATE

Pronunciation (US):

 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)

Meaning:

Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

vaccinate; immunise; immunize; inoculate

Context examples:

We vaccinate against scarlet fever / 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