doctoring
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Definitions ofdoctoring
- To act as a medical doctor to.
Example: "Her children doctored her back to health."
- To act as a medical doctor.
- To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
- To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
Example: "They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick."
- To genetically alter an extant species.
Example: "Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored."
- To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
- To take medicine.
- Treatment by a doctor.
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