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bedoctored

bedoctored is the simple past and past participle of bedoctor.

Meaning of bedoctor

Verb

bedoctor (third-person singular simple present bedoctors, present participle bedoctoring, simple past and past participle bedoctored)

  1. (transitive) To confer a doctoral degree upon.
    • [...] why bedoctor this charming French writer?1887, The Academy and Literature
  2. (transitive) To address as 'doctor'.
  3. (transitive) To care for in the manner of a doctor.
    • And half the neurotic, ever-bedoctored women owe their cowardly physical condition to the fact that when they were little children they were allowed to stay away from school, excused from common household duties because they had a headache or a cramp somewhere.1906, The Independent

Questions about bedoctored

What is bedoctored the simple past and past participle of?
Bedoctored is the simple past and past participle of bedoctor.

Words near bedoctored in the dictionary

  1. bednet
  2. bednets
  3. Bednja
  4. bedo
  5. bedoctor
  6. bedoctored
  7. bedoctoring
  8. bedoctors
  9. bedoes
  10. bedog
  11. bedogged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedoctored (page history and authors); bedoctor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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