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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vaccinate
verb
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▪ A health spokesman stressed there had been no reported deaths - and said parents should continue having their children vaccinated.
▪ Anyone traveling to a country where exposure to the Hepatitis A virus is possible should be vaccinated.
▪ Elvis Presley agreed to be vaccinated in public to inspire his teenage fans to submit to the needle.
▪ He had been vaccinated and soon recovered.
▪ Smallpox was eliminated by a dedicated effort to vaccinate everyone.
▪ To vaccinate a few hundred people in a village and find a disease there a decade later is one thing.
▪ Victims were isolated, and everyone who had been in contact with them was vaccinated.
▪ Worcestershire Health Authority is another which doesn't vaccinate youngsters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaccinate

Vaccinate \Vac"ci*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaccinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaccinating.] [See Vaccine.] To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vaccinate

1803, "to inoculate with a vaccine," originally with cowpox for the purpose of procuring immunity from smallpox, back-formation from vaccination. Related: Vaccinated; vaccinating.

Wiktionary
vaccinate

vb. Treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.

WordNet
vaccinate

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

Usage examples of "vaccinate".

The CDC plan is basically quite simple: Identify those with smallpox, isolate them to keep them from infecting others, and vaccinate anyone with whom they may have come into contact.

In 1874 a law was established in Prussia that every child that had not already had small-pox must be vaccinated in the first year of its life, and every pupil in a private or public institution must be revaccinated during the year in which his or her twelfth birthday occurs.

Then they brought the cow in, and after she was tested and vaccinated Guthrie wrapped his arms around her head and pulled her head violently to one side, her neck stretching tight, her eyes wild and frantic, while Raymond fit the sharp ends of the dehorner over the malformed horn.

Foul ulcers appeared on various parts of the bodies of the vaccinated.

If the FN-17 worked, then Company would simply vaccinate their employees and all the potential vacationers and real estate agents and miners who could turn Jeep from a financial embarrassment to a reasonable investment.

They were quite surprised to find what a human old gentleman he was, and went back and told the others, that, instead of being a case of confluent sectarianism, as they supposed, the good old minister had been so well vaccinated with charitable virus that he was now a true, open-souled Christian of the mildest type.

They don't think about the castrating, dehorning, vaccinating, doctoring, and feeding--not to mention all the grief they give ya in between.

His wrangle with the Board of Education, when he had refused to have Pearl vaccinated at their request, still rankled.

Might not the two of them, born, baptized, vaccinated, educated as they were, have borne witness to the same identical development?

One advantage would be that by variolating these previously vaccinated people, their blood will be rich in antibodies to smallpox after the variolation.

The technology required to vaccinate or variolate the Grantville population is very minimal.