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underimmunise

underimmunise is the alternative form of underimmunize.

Meaning of underimmunize

Verb

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

  1. To provide with inadequate immunization.
    • 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

Forms of underimmunise

third-person singular presentunderimmunises
present participleunderimmunising
past participleunderimmunised
pastunderimmunised

Origin of underimmunise

From under- + immunise.

Questions about underimmunise

What is underimmunise the alternative form of?
Underimmunise is the alternative form of underimmunize.

Words near underimmunise in the dictionary

  1. underidentified
  2. underidentify
  3. underilluminated
  4. underilluminating
  5. underimagined
  6. underimmunise
  7. underimmunised
  8. underimmunises
  9. underimmunising
  10. underimmunization
  11. underimmunizations

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