Past tense of doctor
regular verb
The past tense of doctor is doctored. The past participle is also doctored.
Forms of doctor
| Base form (V1) | doctor /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | doctored /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)d/ |
| Past participle (V3) | doctored /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)d/ |
| Present participle | doctoring |
| Third person singular | doctors /ˈdɒktəz/ |
Doctored in a sentence
- Her children doctored her back to health.
- They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
- A catloving friend of mine told us we'd need to have it doctored sooner or later.1987, Hungarian Digest, Lapkiadó Publishing House, page 26. From the entry catloving
- CBS insisted that it was not doctored.2025 February 3, Brian Stelter, “The FCC’s battle with CBS over its Harris interview is raising red flags”, in CNN. From the entry CBS
- Some of the horses were registered under phony papers, their sires having been ruled off the track as doped or doctored.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry attainder
Meaning of doctor
- noun A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK.
- noun A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
- noun A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
Questions about the past tense of doctor
- What is the past tense of doctor?
- The past tense of doctor is doctored.
- What is the past participle of doctor?
- The past participle of doctor is doctored.
- Is doctor a regular or irregular verb?
- Doctor is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: doctor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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