inoculate
verb (used with object)
to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
had inoculated
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past perfectof inoculate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Israel began giving the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last December and had inoculated a significant share of its population before many wealthy countries had even started.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
In April, Bhutan grabbed headlines when its government said it had inoculated around the same percentage of eligible adults with the first dose in under two weeks after India donated 550,000 shots of AstraZeneca vaccine.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
They found that of the approximately 300 people Boylston had inoculated, 2% had died, compared with almost 15% of those who contracted smallpox from nature.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2021
It would have been unforgivable if any of that had inoculated him from responsibility a football-first culture that put so many Baylor students at risk.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2016
It was possible, of course, that the restless and ambitions old lady had inoculated her young granddaughter with some of her own dissatisfaction.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
