overimmunize
English
Etymology
over- + immunize
Verb
overimmunize (third-person singular simple present overimmunizes, present participle overimmunizing, simple past and past participle overimmunized)
- To provide with more immunizations than is necessary.
- 1961, Texas State Journal of Medicine - Volume 57, Part 2, page 894:
- 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.
- 2002, Suzanne M. Levasseur, Pediatric Nursing Secrets, page 148:
- It is up to the caregiver to decide, but it is better to overimmunize a child than to underimmunize.
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