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vaccine
Meaning: a substance used to stimulate immunity against a disease
vaccine in a sentence
How vaccine is used in real sentences:
The clinic offered a free vaccine to protect students against the flu this winter.
The scientist spent a decade developing a vaccine that finally stopped the outbreak among livestock.
“Their map will also aid a vaccine project at the city lab.”
— from the passage Mosquitoes in the Marsh
Synonyms for vaccine
Other words for vaccine — inoculation, immunization and shot — carry the same meaning.
- inoculation
- immunization
- shot
Where it comes from
From Latin vacca 'cow' (early vaccines used cowpox)
Memory hook
VAC-cine: think of a vaccination shot at the clinic.