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inoculate
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Word definitions for inoculate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inoculate \In*oc"u*late\, v. i. To graft by inserting buds. To communicate disease by inoculation.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And Isle of Muck had inoculated his tenants against the smallpox at a cost of two shillings and sixpence per head. ▪ By mid-November 1953 plans were in place to start inoculating children on February 8, 1954. ▪ His dark throat ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive immunology English) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease. (from ''a''. 1722) 2 (context transitive by extension English) To safeguard or protect something as ...
Usage examples of inoculate.
Thus, we would have to inoculate ourselves against such pressure by eliminating all waiver provisions.
It was supposed that in pulling on the boots each of the subsequent owners had scratched himself and became fatally inoculated with the venom, which was unsuspected and not combated.
Cordiani inoculated in my veins the poison of jealousy, although I never dreamed of accusing her of the same crime towards him that she had committed upon me.
And now, sorry things began to happen to his inoculated guinea-pigs and rabbits.
He took two apes, inoculated them with the syphilitic virus fresh from a man, and then, one hour later, he rubbed the grayish ointment into that scratched spot on one of his apes.
The sheriffs had got inoculated and they had that task force thing trying to round up cold-hearted killers loose.
Some rural urchins who had ambled back were inoculated and ready to prowl for zombies.
They said they have already come up with it, and we are gonna get inoculated again.
And when soil is once inoculated it remains so for a long time, even though the proper legume should not be grown again on the same soil.
However, there are good reasons for believing that with the introduction of hardy varieties and through the use of Northern grown seed, an inoculated soil, where inoculation may be necessary, that medium red clover will yet be grown over wide areas in all the provinces of Northwestern Canada, south of and including the Saskatchewan valley.
Much of the soil in Illinois, it is said, must first be inoculated with the bacteria proper to alfalfa before vigorous crops can be grown, and this is probably true of sections of Indiana soil.
Because of this, growers should be slow to conclude that alfalfa will not flourish on the soils on which they sow it until they have first tried to grow it on those soils that have been inoculated with the requisite alfalfa bacteria.
Isaac Smith, reporting that Abigail, acting on her own, had decided that she and the children must be inoculated for smallpox.
The ordeal of the patient, however, could be considerable, as Adams knew from all he had seen at the time he was inoculated, and largely because of various purges that were thought essential to recovery.
The majority of the delegates, believing that the Democratic party had been inoculated with the serum of reform, were ready for the sake of a principle to risk the destruction of the party they had labored so hard to build.