vaccinating

1. 1.

   the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity

   “doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating”

   Synonymsinoculating

   Broaderprotection

   Narrowerring vaccinationvariolation

Other forms of vaccinating

plural

vaccinatings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vaccinating

What does vaccinating mean?

vaccinating means "the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity".

How many syllables are in vaccinating?

vaccinating has 4 syllables: vac-ci-na-ting. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for vaccinating?

Close synonyms include inoculating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vaccinating a common word?

vaccinating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.