immunize
verb (used with object)
to make immune, or protected from a disease or the like.
have immunized
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present perfectof immunize.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Since Keenan’s moment, many developed nations, including the U.K., have immunized the majority of their populations.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Johnson & Johnson was heavily criticized for shipping doses to European countries, which have immunized large numbers of their people and have even donated vaccines to more-needy nations.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
Oddly enough, the fact that other compelling evidence may prove equally untrustworthy seems to have immunized all the bad eyewitness evidence.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2011
Over the past year, health workers have immunized more than 11,000 children; given prenatal care to some 13,000 women; distributed antimalarial bed nets, iron and vitamin A tablets; and screened children for malnutrition.
From Time ● Oct. 24, 2010
Kennan hopefully thinks that, as a modern reincarnation of the murderous Ivan the Terrible, Stalin may have immunized the Soviet state against Stalinism.
From Time Magazine Archive
