underimmunize

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ immunize.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

1. To provide with inadequate immunization.
   • 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.

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

     There is a tendency to underimmunize children.

   • 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.