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)
- 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.
- July 15, 1833, Jane Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle
- 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
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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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