underimmunize

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verb

To provide with inadequate immunization.

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Meanings

verbunderimmunize (third-person singular simple present underimmunizes, present participle underimmunizing, simple past and past participle underimmunized)

present singular third person underimmunizes · participle present underimmunizing · participle past underimmunized · past underimmunized

  1. To provide with inadequate immunization.

    There is a tendency to underimmunize children.

    1999, Ruffin, Instructors Manual to Principles of Economics, →ISBN, page 121
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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

    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

Origin

From under- + immunize.

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Chicago

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