inoculate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they inoculate | |
| he / she / it inoculates | |
| past simple inoculated | |
| past participle inoculated | |
| -ing form inoculating |
- inoculate somebody (against something)
to protect a person or an animal from catching a particular disease by injecting them with a mild form of the disease （给…）接种，打预防针 Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘graft a bud or shoot into a different plant’): from Latin inoculat- ‘grafted’, from the verb inoculare, from in- ‘into’ + oculus ‘eye, bud’. The sense ‘vaccinate’ dates from the early 18th cent.