English noun: vaccinating | |||
| 1. | vaccinating (act) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | ||
| Samples | Doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating. | ||
| Synonyms | inoculating | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | protection | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ring vaccination, variolation, variolization | ||