Word Finder - inoculate

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To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.

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(by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.

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To add one substance to another; to spike.

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The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.

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To graft by inserting buds.

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to inoculate a tree

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To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue; to implant.

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to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity

Your G.P. can also inoculate but may take a while to get to get the vaccine in.

By using the dowels to inoculate cut logs or stumps, mushroom mycelium can be encouraged to grow throughout or colonize the wood.

For years the men of the Left had worked to inoculate the electorate with suspicion of Conservative methods and with hatred of the imposts which they nevertheless knew to be indispensable to sound finance.

On the bacterial theory it was thought possible to inoculate a poor tobacco with, say, the special bacteria present in Cuban tobacco, and so give the product the aroma and other good qualities rof the more valuable tobacco.