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the process of by which someone becomes safe from something — especially a disease (typically by learning to recognize and fight the disease through vaccination)- Immunization rates are lower in India than in other developing countries.
- And I volunteer at the clinic, where a Guinean doctor comes once a week from Coquilhatville to immunize and diagnose babies.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- For those who live here most of their lives, they are naturally immunized.Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
- He felt he'd been accidentally immunized from it, or at least to some extent broken from the habit by his failure from school.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- A virus that immunizes the host by altering its DNA against certain other viruses.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- They passed a sign that said: YOU ARE NOW ENTERING LEVEL I PROCEED DIRECTLY TO IMMUNIZATION CONTROL Hall noticed that all the walls were red.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- All the practical things—visas and clothing and immunization cards?Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- If he fixed the horse real good, maybe he could immunize the poor thing against her stupidity and fear.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- It was a thing to which I have immunized myself, but of which very few other persons have even heard.Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
- Every dog needs a good veterinarian, a trained professional who can keep it healthy and strong and immunized against disease.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
- So .... are you immunized or something?Susan Ee -- Angelfall
- And an immunization card, and last semester's grades.Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
- He showed the children how to let themselves be stung by spiders and drink the urine of pregnant women as a form of immunization.Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
- When she takes him in his pram for his immunizations at the pediatrician's, she stands outside the room and plugs up her ears.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- He had immunized rabbits to typhoid, and he believed that if he mixed serum taken from these immune animals with typhoid germs, the germs would die.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- Okay, Peabody, I hope your immunizations are up to date.J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
- Though theoretically immunized by periodical inoculations, he was well aware that at any moment death might claim him too, and he had given thought to this.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- I considered the offer seriously-I went so far as to book a flight and get the required immunizations-and then bowed out at the last minute.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- We immunize the fish against the future man's diseases.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
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