Definitions for vaccinate

vaccinate vac·ci·nate

Spelling: [vak-suh-neyt]
IPA: /ˈvæk səˌneɪt/

Vaccinate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in vaccinate (aacceintv).

Definitions for vaccinate

verb (used with object)

  1. to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
  2. to inoculate with the modified virus of any of various other diseases, as a preventive measure.

verb (used without object)

  1. to perform or practice vaccination.

Origin of vaccinate

First recorded in 1800-10; back formation from vaccination

Examples for vaccinate

And then this: I always ask if the children are vaccinated, or if the parents intend to vaccinate once the child is born.

Refusing to vaccinate your children means you are contributing to a worsening public health crisis.

The parents who refused to vaccinate their kids are the reason behind the measles resurrecting themselves in New York.

For some inscrutable reason the Rebels decided to vaccinate us all.

As he lay on the nurses lap I was obliged to sit on the ground to vaccinate him.

Dr Earle ought to vaccinate me, but I am afraid to speak to him.

Infidelity,—that is to say, science,— said: "vaccinate him."

If I can only see the doctor by himself, she thought, and get him to vaccinate me and say nothing about it.

One look at those numbers is all it takes to realize how absurd the decision not to vaccinate is.

From a pediatric ICU in Melbourne, Australia, to an elevator in Brooklyn, we see just how harmful refusing to vaccinate can be.

Word Value for vaccinate
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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