Overimmunize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To provide with more immunizations than is necessary.

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From over- + immunize.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.