Sekirov Dictionary

immune

/ɪˈmjuːn/

adjective 4
noun 1
verb 1
forms 5

adjective4

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Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.
- I am immune to chicken pox.
•
Not vulnerable.
- Alas, he was immune to my charms.
•
Of or pertaining to immunity.
- We examined the patient's immune response.
•
Exempt; not subject to.
- As a diplomat, you are immune from prosecution.

noun1

•
A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease
- Susceptibles effectively exposed to cases become cases in the next time period; cases recovering from the infection accumulate as immunes. — 1965

verb1

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(rare) To make immune.
- In the seventies those who met me did not know / Of the vision / That immuned me from the chillings of mis-prision […] — 1917

forms

immuned · immuning · immunes · more immune · most immune

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