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

28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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