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VACCINATING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunityplay

Example:

doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating

Synonyms:

inoculating; vaccinating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("vaccinating" is a kind of...):

protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vaccinating"):

ring vaccination (administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization)

variolation; variolization (the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox)

Derivation:

vaccinate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb vaccinate

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