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

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.

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]

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.

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 …

Jun 30, 2025 · 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.

INOCULATE meaning: to give (a person or animal) a weakened form of a disease in order to prevent infection by the disease often + against

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