inoculate
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/
The English word “inoculate” has 6 meanings listed here.
verb
- To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
- To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
- To add one substance to another.
- To graft by inserting buds.
- To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).
noun
Etymology
First attested in c. 1440; inherited from Middle English inoculaten (“to graft”), from Latin inoculātus, perfect passive participle of inoculō (“to ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into (another), implant”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + oculus (“an eye”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
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