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# vaccinated

adjective (vaccinated); verb (past tense and past participle of vaccinate)

«vaccinated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Given a vaccine, a medicine, usually by an injection, that teaches the body to fight a disease before you catch it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccinated/#m1)

### In the lessons

In health and science lessons pupils learn that being vaccinated protects you and other people from diseases like measles, polio and flu. Many children are vaccinated at the doctor's or at school. Pets are vaccinated too. Phrases: get vaccinated, fully vaccinated, vaccinated against.

### Examples

- I was vaccinated against measles when I was a baby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccinated/#x1)
- Our dog is vaccinated every year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccinated/#x2)
- The nurse vaccinated the whole class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccinated/#x3)
- Being vaccinated helps stop diseases from spreading. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccinated/#x4)
- Have you been vaccinated against flu? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccinated/#x5)
- Edward Jenner made the first vaccine to protect against smallpox. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccinated/#x6)

### Note

The verb is "vaccinate", the medicine is a "vaccine", the act is "vaccination". Often "vaccinated against" a disease. A vaccine can make your arm sore for a day or two; that is normal. Science: vaccines train the immune system using a weak or harmless part of the germ.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «vaccinated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccinated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«vaccinated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/vaccinated.html) on Mova free.