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bedoctoring

bedoctoring is the present participle and gerund 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 bedoctoring

What is bedoctoring the present participle and gerund of?
Bedoctoring is the present participle and gerund of bedoctor.

Words near bedoctoring in the dictionary

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

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