inoculate

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
2. (broadly, transitive) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
3. (transitive) To add one substance to another.
4. (transitive) To graft by inserting buds.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).

Noun

Synonym of inoculum.

Synonyms

vaccinate

immunize

immunise

inject

engraft

seat

💺

set

shoot

sit down

give an injection

ingraft

bed

🛏️

repot

graft

implant

ingrain

plant

🌱

Translations

inoculer

inocular

impfen

inenten

inocular

vaccinare

enten

oculeren

inoculare

vacciner

vacinar

einimpfen

inocular

vacunar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: inoculate

In summary

First attested in c. 1440; inherited from Middle English inoculaten (“to graft”), from Latin inoculātus, perfect passive participle of inoculō (“to ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into (another), implant”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + oculus (“an eye”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).