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doctorating

doctorating is the present participle and gerund of doctorate.

Meaning of doctorate

Verb

doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)

  1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
    • He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated.a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC

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Questions about doctorating

What is doctorating the present participle and gerund of?
Doctorating is the present participle and gerund of doctorate.

Words near doctorating in the dictionary

  1. doctorands
  2. doctorandus
  3. doctorate
  4. doctorated
  5. doctorates
  6. doctorating
  7. doctorbird
  8. doctorbirds
  9. doctorbush
  10. doctorbushes
  11. doctorcraft

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