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undoctoring

undoctoring is the present participle and gerund of undoctor.

Meaning of undoctor

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

Questions about undoctoring

What is undoctoring the present participle and gerund of?
Undoctoring is the present participle and gerund of undoctor.

Words near undoctoring in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undoctoring (page history and authors); undoctor (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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