Associations to the word «Inoculate»

Wiktionary

INOCULATE, verb. (transitive) (immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease. [from a. 1722]
INOCULATE, verb. (transitive) (by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
INOCULATE, verb. To add one substance to another; to spike.
INOCULATE, verb. To graft by inserting buds. [from c. 1420]
INOCULATE, verb. (figurative) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue. [from a. 1600]

Dictionary definition

INOCULATE, verb. Introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs".
INOCULATE, verb. Introduce a microorganism into.
INOCULATE, verb. Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school".
INOCULATE, verb. Insert a bud for propagation.
INOCULATE, verb. Impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King