immunize

English

Alternative forms

• immunise

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French immuniser

Verb

1. (transitive) To make someone or something immune to something.
   • Chief Justice John Roberts

     It is now clear that the brevity of an indecent broadcast – be it word or image – cannot immunize it from FCC censure.

2. (transitive) To inoculate someone, and thus produce immunity from a disease.

Translations

to make someone or something immune to something

• Catalan: immunitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使免疫 (shǐ miǎnyì)

• Dutch: immuniseren (nl)
• Finnish: immunisoida
• French: immuniser (fr)
• German: immunisieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: imunigar (io)
• Malay: mengimunkan
• Maori: tuku awhikiri
• Portuguese: imunizar (pt)
• Russian: иммунизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (immunizírovatʹ)
• Slovak: imunizovať
• Spanish: inmunizar (es)

to inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease

• Bulgarian: имунизирам (imuniziram)
• Catalan: immunitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使免疫 (shǐ miǎnyì)

• Finnish: rokottaa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: immuniser (fr)
• German: immunisieren (de)
• Maori: tuku awhikiri
• Russian: иммунизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (immunizírovatʹ)
• Slovak: imunizovať
• Spanish: inmunizar (es)