inoculate
/ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.26 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But you would not willingly thus give up the Cause; therefore endeavour to draw others into your Assistance, and venture to assert, that by the Account Dr. Nettleton gives, as also by the best Observation upon those who have been Inoculated in this City, scarcely a fourth part of them have had a true and genuine Small Pox."
- "The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene."
- "Her upbringing overseas inoculated her against prejudice."
- "This made it possible for them to enjoy the media without personally changing their views in ways that they believed it changed the views of others. In a sense, they believed that their religion inoculated them against the media's negative effects."
- "Lenihan insisted that, given their history both as a former colony and a net exporter of people round the world, the Irish were better inoculated against racism and xenophobia than other EU nations[…]"
- "The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake."
Etymology
First attested in c. 1440; inherited from Middle English inoculaten (“to graft”), from Latin inoculātus, perfect passive participle of inoculō (“to ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into (another), implant”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + oculus (“an eye”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Origin
- Source language: Middle English
- First known use: First attested in c. 1440
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃ekʷ-, inoculaten, inoculātus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt/
- British English: /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/