inoculate
Meanings
Plural: inoculates
Verb
- introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of
- "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs"
- introduce a microorganism into
- perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
- insert a bud for propagation
- impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
- To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
- To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
- To add one substance to another.
- To graft by inserting buds.
- To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).
Noun
- Synonym of inoculum.
Origin / Etymology
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).
Scrabble Score: 11
inoculate is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordinoculate is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 15
inoculate is a valid Words With Friends word