Term: inoculating: the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: prayer: a fixed text used in praying → 0
Candidate hypernym: napoleon: a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes → 0
Candidate hypernym: swamp dewberry: of eastern North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: hessian fly: small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains → 0
Candidate hypernym: contemporary: a person of nearly the same age as another → 0
Candidate hypernym: air conditioner: a system that keeps air cool and dry → 0
Candidate hypernym: nose: a symbol of inquisitiveness → 0
Candidate hypernym: braising: cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture → 0
Candidate hypernym: chain fern: a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows → 0
Candidate hypernym: minamata disease: a form of mercury poisoning among people who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters of Minamata Bay off Japan in the 1950s; characterized by severe neurological degeneration → 0