It is important to immunize children against polio.
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Immunize
//ˈɪm.ju.naɪz//
Synonyms for "immunize" (5 found)
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34 translations across 20 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- імунізава́ць verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- імунізава́ць verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Bulgarian
1 entries- имунизирам verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Catalan
2 entries- immunitzar verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- immunitzar verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 使免疫 verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- 使免疫 verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Dutch
1 entries- immuniseren verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
Finnish
2 entries- immunisoida verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- rokottaa verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
French
2 entries- immuniser verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- immuniser verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
German
2 entries- immunisieren verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- immunisieren verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Ido
1 entries- imunigar verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
Kazakh
1 entries- иммунитеттендіру verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
Latin
1 entries- immūnizō verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
Malay
1 entries- mengimunkan verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
Māori
2 entries- tuku awhikiri verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- tuku awhikiri verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Polish
4 entries- uodparniać verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- uodparniać verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
- uodpornić verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- uodpornić verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Portuguese
1 entries- imunizar verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
Russian
2 entries- иммунизи́ровать verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- иммунизи́ровать verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Slovak
2 entries- imunizovať verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- imunizovať verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Spanish
2 entries- inmunizar verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- inmunizar verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Swedish
1 entries- immunisera verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
Ukrainian
2 entries- імунізува́ти verb (to make someone or something immune to something)
- імунізува́ти verb (to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
It is now clear that the brevity of an indecent broadcast – be it word or image – cannot immunize it from FCC censure.
Source: wiktionary
This kind of warfare [i.e., biological] would have us devouring the world’s children in a manner of speaking and those who are immunologically impaired, presuming we were going to immunize our own population but not those of the antagonist. Thus we would be conducting warfare which by definition would be indiscriminate rather than selective. We would lose control of the evolution of the bacteria that we would be releasing in the multitrillions.
Source: wiktionary
At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out.
Source: wiktionary
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