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undoctor

undoctor verb: to divest of the character or status of a doctor.

Verb

undoctor (third-person singular simple present undoctors, present participle undoctoring, simple past and past participle undoctored)

  1. (transitive) To divest of the character or status of a doctor.
    • July 15, 1833, Jane Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle
      My brother-in-law is a paragon of the class, but he is so by—in as much as possible—undoctoring himself.
  2. (transitive) To restore (something illicitly altered) to its correct form.
    • If their accountants are undoctoring the books properly, there's evidence he's ripped off something close to two million bucks on this Arizona thing alone.2012, William L. DeAndrea, Killed in the Act

Forms of undoctor

third-person singular presentundoctors
present participleundoctoring
past participleundoctored
pastundoctored

Origin of undoctor

From un- + doctor.

Questions about undoctor

What does undoctor mean?
Undoctor means to divest of the character or status of a doctor.
What part of speech is undoctor?
Undoctor is a verb.
What is the past tense of undoctor?
The past tense of undoctor is undoctored.

Words near undoctor in the dictionary

  1. undocked
  2. undocketed
  3. undocking
  4. undockings
  5. undocks
  6. undoctor
  7. undoctored
  8. undoctoring
  9. undoctorlike
  10. undoctorly
  11. undoctors

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