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bedoctors

bedoctors is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bedoctors

What is bedoctors the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bedoctors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedoctor.

Words near bedoctors in the dictionary

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

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