underinstruct

English

Etymology

under- + instruct

Verb

underinstruct (third-person singular simple present underinstructs, present participle underinstructing, simple past and past participle underinstructed)

  1. (transitive) To provide (someone) with insufficient instruction.
    • 1961, Ely Jacques Kahn Jr., A Reporter Here and There, New York: Random House, “Die Luftbrücke,” p. 194,
      [] an overenthusiastic and underinstructed loading crew of Germans had stuffed his three-and-a-half-ton-capacity ship with seven and a half tons of cargo.
    • 1988, J. Alfred Jones and Gerald M. Phillips, Communicating with Your Doctor, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, Chapter 4, p. 117,
      [Doctors] tend to avoid describing side effects [] . This occasionally leads them to underinstruct their patients.
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