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    VACCINATING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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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