IMMUNIZE

immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate

(verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; “We vaccinate against scarlet fever”; “The nurse vaccinated the children in the school”

immunize, immunise

(verb) law: grant immunity from prosecution

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

immunize (third-person singular simple present immunizes, present participle immunizing, simple past and past participle immunized)

(transitive) To make someone or something immune to something.

(transitive) To inoculate someone, and thus produce immunity from a disease.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

3 July 2025

SENSE

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”


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Coffee Trivia

You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.

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