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vaccinate
Part of speech: VerbTo inoculate, or give a mild form of a disease to, in order to prevent a severe attack; especially, to make immune from smallpox, by injecting into the body the virus, or poison, form the disease of cowpox.
Part of speech: Noun Part of speech: Past tenseVaccinated.
Part of speech: Past participleVaccinating.
Usage examples "vaccinate":- Therefore, immediately upon the report of a case of smallpox, the Board of Health officials exercise their right of entry into the schools of that district, and either vaccinate or exclude from attendance every child who could himself become a carrier of the disease. - "Health Work in the Public Schools", Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres.
- The Apaches, Comanches, the Shoshones, and Arrapahoes are so clean and so very nice in the arrangement of their domestic comforts, that they suffered very little, or not at all; at least, I do not remember a single case which brought death in these tribes; indeed, as I have before mentioned, the Shoshones vaccinate. - "Monsieur Violet", Frederick Marryat.
- It would be fine patching people up, setting their bones, and trying things no one had dared to do before; but I couldn't stand driving round every day to look after their wretched colds, and vaccinate the babies. - "Betty Trevor", Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey.