immunize
verb /ˈɪmjunaɪz/
/ˈɪmjunaɪz/
(British English also immunise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they immunize | /ˈɪmjunaɪz/ /ˈɪmjunaɪz/ |
| he / she / it immunizes | /ˈɪmjunaɪzɪz/ /ˈɪmjunaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple immunized | /ˈɪmjunaɪzd/ /ˈɪmjunaɪzd/ |
| past participle immunized | /ˈɪmjunaɪzd/ /ˈɪmjunaɪzd/ |
| -ing form immunizing | /ˈɪmjunaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈɪmjunaɪzɪŋ/ |
- immunize somebody/something (against something) to protect a person or an animal from a disease, especially by giving them an injection of a vaccine
- a campaign to immunize children against the common killer diseases
- Children have been routinely immunized against polio since 1958.
- They immunized some mice with a dose of the live vaccine.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- fully
- routinely
- against
- with