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Adjective: vaccinated  'vak-si,ney-tid
  1. Having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease
    "I am aware that these cases of diphtheria among vaccinated children are probably the first on record";
    - immunized, immunised [Brit]
Verb: vaccinate  'vak-si,neyt
  1. (medicine) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
    "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school";
    - immunize, immunise [Brit], inoculate, vax [informal], jab [Brit, informal]

See also: insusceptible, unsusceptible

Type of: inject, shoot

Encyclopedia: Vaccinated

Vaccinate