vaccinate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
    inoculate; immunise; immunize.
    • We vaccinate against scarlet fever
    • The nurse vaccinated the children in the school

WordNet

Vac"ci*nate transitive verb
Etymology
See Vaccine.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Vaccinated ; present participle & verbal noun Vaccinating
Definitions
  1. To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows. now, generally, to administer (by injection or otherwise) any vaccine with the objective of rendering the recipient immune to an infectious disease.

Webster 1913