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.
inoculated
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past participleof inoculate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof inoculate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
inoculateverb (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.
Example Sentences
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Even in difficult conditions, the plants treated with fungi survived longer than those that were not inoculated.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
Parents have been able to choose whether to delay or decline to have their infants inoculated, according to the Vaccine Integrity Project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
A new recommendation passed by the committee will tell parents of most infants to consult with doctors about whether their babies should be inoculated at birth.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
Several were from concerned grandparents, worried about their young grandchildren not being inoculated against certain diseases as a result of vaccine scepticism.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
Has Ridge Sabio been inoculated against disease and infection common in this time period?
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
