Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to inoculate
Participle: inoculated
Gerund: inoculating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | inoculate |
| you | inoculate |
| he;she;it | inoculates |
| we | inoculate |
| you | inoculate |
| they | inoculate |
Perfect
| I | have inoculated |
| you | have inoculated |
| he;she;it | has inoculated |
| we | have inoculated |
| you | have inoculated |
| they | have inoculated |
Past
| I | inoculated |
| you | inoculated |
| he;she;it | inoculated |
| we | inoculated |
| you | inoculated |
| they | inoculated |
Pluperfect
| I | had inoculated |
| you | had inoculated |
| he;she;it | had inoculated |
| we | had inoculated |
| you | had inoculated |
| they | had inoculated |
Future
| I | will inoculate |
| you | will inoculate |
| he;she;it | will inoculate |
| we | will inoculate |
| you | will inoculate |
| they | will inoculate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have inoculated |
| you | will have inoculated |
| he;she;it | will have inoculated |
| we | will have inoculated |
| you | will have inoculated |
| they | will have inoculated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | inoculate |
| you | inoculate |
| he;she;it | inoculate |
| we | inoculate |
| you | inoculate |
| they | inoculate |
Perfect
| I | have inoculated |
| you | have inoculated |
| he;she;it | have inoculated |
| we | have inoculated |
| you | have inoculated |
| they | have inoculated |
Imperfect
| I | inoculated |
| you | inoculated |
| he;she;it | inoculated |
| we | inoculated |
| you | inoculated |
| they | inoculated |
Pluperfect
| I | had inoculated |
| you | had inoculated |
| he;she;it | had inoculated |
| we | had inoculated |
| you | had inoculated |
| they | had inoculated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would inoculate |
| you | would inoculate |
| he;she;it | would inoculate |
| we | would inoculate |
| you | would inoculate |
| they | would inoculate |
Perfect
| I | would have inoculated |
| you | would have inoculated |
| he;she;it | would have inoculated |
| we | would have inoculated |
| you | would have inoculated |
| they | would have inoculated |
Imperative
| you | inoculate |
| we | Let's inoculate |
| you | inoculate |
Verbs conjugated like 'inoculate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'inoculate'
innoculate,
inocculate,
inosculate,
exoculate,
incubate,
inculcate,
inculpate,
insulate,
nodulate,
reinoculate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1420, "implant a bud into a plant," from L.
inoculatus, pp. of
inoculare "graft in, implant," from
in- "in" +
oculus "bud," originally "eye." Meaning of "implant germs of a disease to produce immunity" first recorded (in
inoculation) 1714, originally in ref. to smallpox. After 1799, often used in sense of "to vaccine inoculate."
2. 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).
Verbs referencing "inoculate"
Spanish
inocular.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1722, John Crawford, The Case of Inoculating the Small-pox Consider'd: And Its Advantages Asserted; in a Review of Dr. Wagstaffe's Letter. Wherein Every Thing that Author Has Advanced Against It, is Fully Confuted: and Inoculation Proved a Safe, Beneficial, and Laudable Practice.:]
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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. [2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:]
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The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
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to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
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to inoculate a tree
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And in Aprill figtreen inoculate [c. 1420, anonymous author, edited by Barton Lodge, On husbondrie, Published for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., translation of original by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, published 1872:]
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to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
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You ſhould not haue beleeu'd me, for vertue cannot ſo e[n]oculat our old ſtock, but vve ſhall reliſh of it, I loued you not. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature G2, verso:]
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The Church tries to inoculate humanity with the imaginary goodness drawn down from a fabulous heaven, and from a priest-manufactured God. [1860, John Watts, The Christian Doctrine of Man's Depravity Refuted, Watts & Company, page 14:]