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misdoctoring

misdoctoring is the present participle and gerund 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 misdoctoring

What is misdoctoring the present participle and gerund of?
Misdoctoring is the present participle and gerund of misdoctor.

Words near misdoctoring in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdoctoring (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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