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.
inoculates
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present tense formof inoculate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“There’s mold spores and fungus spores, so that inoculates your pile full of that goodness,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
The familiarity inoculates them against the fear, which may then become fascination.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
The spike protein triggers an immune response in the human body that inoculates against infection.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
Is it comfort with risk or faith in nature and self that inoculates extreme and adventure athletes like Grosmaire to danger?
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
Matthew inoculates people against the memory serum all throughout the day, Cara and Caleb and Tris and Nita and Reggie and himself.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
