underinstruct

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English

Etymology

From under- +‎ instruct.

Pronunciation

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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., “Die Luftbrücke”, in A Reporter Here and There, New York: Random House, page 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, Gerald M. Phillips, chapter 4, in Communicating with Your Doctor, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, page 117:
      tend to avoid describing side effects . This occasionally leads them to underinstruct their patients.