Dictionary Entry
inoculate
inoculate is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
- 2transitive verb
To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.
- 3transitive verb
To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.
- 4transitive verb
Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.
- 5intransitive verb
To graft by inserting buds.
- 6intransitive verb
To communicate disease by inoculation.
- 7verb
impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
- 8verb
insert a bud for propagation
- 9verb
perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
"We vaccinate against scarlet fever"
"The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
- 10verb
introduce a microorganism into
- 11verb
introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of
"My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs"
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