verb
- to make immune or resistant to a particular infection or toxin by inoculation
- to make someone or something immune to or unaffected by something
Usage: British spelling; American spelling is ‘immunize’
Usage: figurative use
Examples
- Parents should immunise their children against measles.
- The vaccine will immunise you against the flu.
- All healthcare workers must be immunised before starting work.
- The doctor recommended immunising the entire family.
- Travel to certain countries requires being immunised against yellow fever.
- Years of criticism had immunised him against further attacks.
- The training programme aims to immunise employees against workplace stress.