overimmunize en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + immunize.
Meanings
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To provide with more immunizations than is necessary.
Those who tend, from ignorance, to underimmunize would readily follow such schedules; those who tend to overimmunize would quickly adopt proper standards, lest medical and lay persons criticize them.
1961, Texas State Journal of Medicine - Volume 57, Part 2, page 894:It is up to the caregiver to decide, but it is better to overimmunize a child than to underimmunize.
2002, Suzanne M. Levasseur, Pediatric Nursing Secrets, page 148:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overimmunizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overimmunizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| overimmunized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overimmunized | Tense=Past | lexicographic |