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immunize

 verb
     
Related topics: Drugs, Medicines, Illness and Disability
im‧mu‧nize also immunise British English [transitive]
to protect someone from a particular illness by giving them a vaccine [= vaccinate, inoculate]
immunize somebody against something
There is still no vaccine to immunize people against the virus.
—immunization noun [uncountable and countable]
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