vaccinate
verb (used with object)
to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
have vaccinated
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present perfectof vaccinate.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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To curb its spread, officials have vaccinated all of the rescued rabbits.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2023
Reported deaths are rising in Africa, the continent with the lowest vaccination coverage, he said, and only 57 countries — almost all of them wealthy — have vaccinated 70% of their people.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2022
Reported deaths are rising in Africa, the continent with the lowest vaccination coverage, he said, and only 57 countries - almost all of them wealthy - have vaccinated 70% of their people.
From Washington Times ● May 22, 2022
“The more children we have vaccinated, the safer they’ll be when they go to school,” Governor Hochul said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
Ryer, in a bill submitted July 31, 1851, claimed to have vaccinated 695 persons along the Merced, principally on the lower course of that river.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
