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Definition of vaccinate
vaccinated
;vaccinating
transitive verb
: to administer a vaccine to usually by injection
intransitive verb
: to perform or practice vaccination
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Examples of vaccinate in a Sentence
We vaccinate all the animals that come to our shelter.
Recent Examples of vaccinate from the Web
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Have dogs, cats and ferrets vaccinated against rabies and keep the vaccinations up-to-date.
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The court cited the lack of scientific evidence for a connection between the vaccine and MS, and the fact that the disease process is thought to begin years before symptoms appear—in other words, before W was vaccinated.
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All animals are fixed, vaccinated and micro-chipped.
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His paper, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, resulted in many parents in Britain and the United States not vaccinating their children, increasing their chances of contracting one of the potentially deadly diseases.
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The agencies keep track of that information, and also get notification from private veterinarians who vaccinate animals against rabies.
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On Thursday, scientists at the University of Florida urged dog owners to consider getting their pets vaccinated.
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At least 15 children died in South Sudan after health workers failed to sterilize syringes between uses while vaccinating around 300 kids in early May.
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When a critical percentage of the community has been vaccinated, everyone’s more protected from that disease.
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Origin and Etymology of vaccinate
earlier, “to inoculate with fluid from a cowpox pustule,” back-formation from vaccination; in later extended sense, in part borrowed from French vacciner, verbal derivative of vaccin vaccine
VACCINATE Defined for English Language Learners
vaccinate
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medical : to give (a person or an animal) a vaccine to prevent infection by a disease
VACCINATE Defined for Kids
vaccinate
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vaccinated
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: to give a vaccine to usually by injection
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of vaccinate
vaccinated
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transitive verb
: to inoculate (a person) with cowpox virus in order to produce immunity to smallpox2: to administer a vaccine to usually by injection
intransitive verb
: to perform or practice vaccination
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