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Vaccinate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VAC'CINATE, v.t. [L. vacca, a cow.] To inoculate with the cow-pox, or a virus originally taken from cows, called vaccine matter.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school" [syn: immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-nated; -nating) Date: 1803 transitive verb to administer a vaccine to usually by injection intransitive verb to perform or practice vaccination • vaccinator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. inoculate with a vaccine to procure immunity from a disease; immunize. Derivatives: vaccination n. vaccinator n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vaccinate Vac"ci*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaccinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaccinating.] [See Vaccine.] To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(vaccinates, vaccinating, vaccinated) If a person or animal is vaccinated, they are given a vaccine, usually by injection, to prevent them from getting a disease. Dogs must be vaccinated against distemper... Have you had your child vaccinated against whooping cough?... Measles, mumps and whooping cough are spreading again because children are not being vaccinated. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed against n, have n V-ed against n, be/get V-ed • vaccination (vaccinations) Parents were too frightened to bring their children for vaccination... Anyone who wants to avoid the flu should consider getting a vaccination. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Inoculate with kine-pox, inoculate with vaccine matter.