inoculate

To introduce a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into (the body of a person or animal), especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease.

To communicate a disease to (a living organism) by transferring its causative agent into the organism.

To implant microorganisms or infectious material into (a culture medium).

To safeguard as if by inoculation; protect.

To introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of.

To graft by budding; insert a bud or germ in, as a tree or plant, for propagation.

Hence To introduce a foreign germ or element into; specifically, to impregnate with disease by the insertion of virus; treat by inoculation for the purpose of protecting from a more malignant form of the disease: as, to inoculate a person for the smallpox: often used figuratively.

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

To insert a foreign bud into.

To communicate a disease to (a person) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh, especially as a means of inducing immunological resistance to that or related diseases; See Vaccinate.