overimmunize

English

Etymology

over- +‎ immunize

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.
   • 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.

   • 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.