单词 | vaccinate |
释义 | vaccinate (once / 2292 pages) v To vaccinate is to immunize someone against a disease. Babies are usually vaccinated against many diseases soon after birth. A vaccine is a type of medicine that makes you resistant (immune) to a disease like polio. To give someone such a medicine is to vaccinate them. You can use this word in a few ways. A doctor is usually the person who vaccinates a child (or older person) by administering a vaccine. You can also say the parents have vaccinated their children by making the decision to do so. Animals can be vaccinated too, like dogs are vaccinated against rabies. WORD FAMILYvaccinate: vaccinated, vaccinates, vaccinating, vaccination, vaccinator+/vaccinated: unvaccinated/vaccination: vaccinations/vaccinator: vaccinators/vaccine: vaccinate, vaccines USAGE EXAMPLESOfficials are recommending everyone six months of age or older to get vaccinated against the flu. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Officials say 64 percent of people in all the cases reported being vaccinated against the mumps. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Esvelt and his team would begin by vaccinating their mice and sequencing the DNA of the most protective antibodies. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) v perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation We vaccinate against scarlet fever The nurse vaccinated the children in the school Syn|Hyper immunise, immunize, inoculate inject, shoot give an injection to |
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