Definition of "inoculating" [inoculating]

• Present participle of inoculate. (verb)

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• "They have never succeeded in inoculating it on one man from another."
• "Previously, some research workers had succeeded in inoculating healthy individuals with typhus by injecting blood from a patient, but all attempts to inoculate animals had failed up till then."
• "After several unsuccessful attempts, Nicolle succeeded at the beginning of 1909 in inoculating chimpanzees with typhus and, from the chimpanzee, he was able to inoculate monkeys of a lower order by injection of blood."