The meaning of INOCULATE is to introduce immunologically active material (such as an antibody or antigen) into especially in order to treat or prevent a disease.

INOCULATE definition: to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance. See examples of inoculate used in a sentence.

Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism. It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases.

INOCULATE definition: 1. to give a weak form of a disease to a person or animal, usually by injection, as a protection…. Learn more.

If you inoculate someone, you try to make him immune to a disease by injecting a little dose of it, so his body can make antibodies to fight it off. When you were little you probably got a vaccine to inoculate …

5 days ago · inoculate (third-person singular simple present inoculates, present participle inoculating, simple past and past participle inoculated) (transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic …

to give (a person etc) a mild form of a disease, usually by injecting germs into his body, so as to prevent him from catching a more serious form.

To inoculate a person or animal means to inject a weak form of a disease into their body as a way of protecting them against the disease. ...a program to inoculate every child in the state. [VERB noun]

Definition of inoculate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

There are 14 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb inoculate, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.