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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immunize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because Habib will not let her go to the health center, the children have not been immunized.
▪ Children must be immunized and attending school.
▪ Monsanto will charge seed companies a handsome royalty to immunize their seed.
▪ Peptides 15, A or 18 were coupled to keyhole limpet haemocyanin and used to immunize rabbits.
▪ The country was buoyant with a new self-confidence: health posts were set up and a vaccination campaign immunized 2.5 million children.
▪ There is still no vaccine to immunize people against the virus.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immunize

Immune \Im*mune"\, a. [L. immunis. See Immunity.]

  1. Exempt; protected. -- Im*mu"nize, v. t.

  2. (Med.) Protected from disease due to the action of the immune system, especially by having been inoculated against or previously exposed to a disease.

  3. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the immune system or the components of the immune system.

  4. Not responsive; as, immune to suggestion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immunize

1889, from immune + -ize. Related: Immunized; immunizing.

Wiktionary
immunize

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make someone or something immune to something. 2 (context transitive English) To inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease.

WordNet
immunize

  1. v. law: grant immunity from prosecution [syn: immunise]

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

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Usage examples of "immunize".

He was given glasses and bridgework, if he needed them, and he was immunized against every imaginable disease.

By allowing non-Communist European nations to flourish, the Marshall Plan strengthened Western Europe, and immunized it from the allures of Soviet Communism.

Not with every single soul hypoed and immunized and hormoned to his eyebrows.

That is the cause of my present discomfort: I am being Immunized against them, and some of the immunizations have unpleasant aftereffects.

Yes, that is why I am being immunized, Kassquit told him, her artificial fingerclaws clicking on the keyboard.

Yes, that is why / am being immunized, Kassquit told him, her artificial fingerclaws clicking on the keyboard.

Even up-time, when someone wasn't immunized, tetanus was a very dangerous disease.

Apart from enabling individual people to survive otherwise deadly diseases, once enough people in a community have been immunized, that community as a whole will also have resistance to the disease.

This involved collecting a pustule (pock) from a patient who had a mild case of smallpox and applying the pus extracted directly into an open wound on the leg or arm of a person wishing to be immunized against smallpox.

While people can be immunized with these viruses, the chances of becoming seriously ill are much lower than with smallpox virus.

In his mind he knew she was immunized and that he was too, that the free dancer would taste them and bully them, but probably leave them alone and snap up Luntee into its electrical processors.

But we've found that a subject can be immunized against them as though they were.

The only possibility that seems to make any sense is that Anton and I both did something that immunized us.

But over the years nature has built up immunizing agents in the food, water, soil.

In a quarter of a century, we'll be immunizing fetuses for about ten credits apiece.