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misdoctored

misdoctored is the simple past and past participle of misdoctor.

Meaning of misdoctor

Verb

misdoctor (third-person singular simple present misdoctors, present participle misdoctoring, simple past and past participle misdoctored)

  1. To doctor improperly; to give the wrong medical treatment.
    • A decrepit pet woodchuck of mine that had been misdoctored by an officious visitor, lay snugged up in a warm basket near the fireplace, but under cover of darkness got up, squeezed out of a back door and disappeared.1896 July, F. L. Oswald, “Zoological Heath-Studies: Remedial Instincts”, in Good Health, volume 31, number 7, page 192

Questions about misdoctored

What is misdoctored the simple past and past participle of?
Misdoctored is the simple past and past participle of misdoctor.

Words near misdoctored in the dictionary

  1. misdividing
  2. misdivision
  3. misdivisions
  4. misdo
  5. misdoctor
  6. misdoctored
  7. misdoctoring
  8. misdoctors
  9. misdocument
  10. misdocumented
  11. misdocumenting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdoctored (page history and authors); misdoctor (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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