overimmunize

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verb

To provide with more immunizations than is necessary.

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Meanings

verboverimmunize (third-person singular simple present overimmunizes, present participle overimmunizing, simple past and past participle overimmunized)

present singular third person overimmunizes · participle present overimmunizing · participle past overimmunized · past overimmunized

  1. To provide with more immunizations than is necessary.

    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
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    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

Origin

From over- + immunize.

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overimmunize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overimmunize.

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