overimmunize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To provide with more immunizations than is necessary.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It is up to the caregiver to decide, but it is better to overimmunize a child than to underimmunize."
Etymology
From over- + immunize.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over