underinstruct

present singular third person underinstructs · participle present underinstructing · participle past underinstructed · past underinstructed

1. transitiveTo provide (someone) with insufficient instruction.

   [Doctors] tend to avoid describing side effects […]. This occasionally leads them to underinstruct their patients.

   1988, J. Alfred Jones, Gerald M. Phillips, chapter 4, in Communicating with Your Doctor, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, page 117

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   […] an overenthusiastic and underinstructed loading crew of Germans had stuffed his three-and-a-half-ton-capacity ship with seven and a half tons of cargo.

   1961, Ely Jacques Kahn Jr., “Die Luftbrücke”, in A Reporter Here and There, New York: Random House, page 194