inoculate
verb
[ ɪˈnɒkjʊleɪt ]
• treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease; vaccinate.
• "he inoculated his tenants against smallpox"
Similar:
immunize,
vaccinate,
inject,
protect from,
shield from,
safeguard from,
give someone a jab,
give someone a shot,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘graft a bud or shoot into a different plant’): from Latin inoculat- ‘engrafted’, from the verb inoculare, from in- ‘into’ + oculus ‘eye, bud’. The sense ‘vaccinate’ dates from the early 18th century.
