inoculate
verb/ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/
/ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they inoculate | /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/ /ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt/ |
| he / she / it inoculates | /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪts/ /ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪts/ |
| past simple inoculated | /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪtɪd/ /ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪtɪd/ |
| past participle inoculated | /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪtɪd/ /ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form inoculating | /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪtɪŋ/ /ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪtɪŋ/ |
- inoculate somebody (against something) to protect a person or an animal from catching a particular disease by injecting them with a mild form of the disease compare immunize, vaccinateTopics Healthcarec2Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘graft a bud or shoot into a different plant’): from Latin inoculat- ‘grafted’, from the verb inoculare, from in- ‘into’ + oculus ‘eye, bud’. The sense ‘vaccinate’ dates from the early 18th cent.
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