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INOCULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("inoculation" is a kind of...):
immunisation; immunization (the act of making immune (especially by inoculation))
Derivation:
inoculate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)