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overimmunizing

overimmunizing is the present participle and gerund of overimmunize.

Meaning of overimmunize

Verb

overimmunize (third-person singular simple present overimmunizes, present participle overimmunizing, simple past and past participle overimmunized)

  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.1961, Texas State Journal of Medicine - Volume 57, Part 2, page 894

Questions about overimmunizing

What is overimmunizing the present participle and gerund of?
Overimmunizing is the present participle and gerund of overimmunize.

Words near overimmunizing in the dictionary

  1. overimmunization
  2. overimmunizations
  3. overimmunize
  4. overimmunized
  5. overimmunizes
  6. overimmunizing
  7. overimmunosuppressed
  8. overimmunosuppression
  9. overimport
  10. overimportant
  11. overimportation

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