Meaning & use
inoculate
To protect a person, animal, or plant against disease by introducing a vaccine or weakened form of a pathogen.
See it in a sentence
The clinic inoculated hundreds of children against measles during the campaign.
Farmers routinely inoculate young seedlings against common fungal infections before transplanting them outdoors.
A note on using this word
'Inoculate' takes one 'n' and one 'c'; it is often confused with 'vaccinate,' though the two are used almost interchangeably today.
Words with a similar meaning
vaccinateimmunize
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