to doctor
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7.7
- verb
- /ˈdɑktər/
- There is nothing to stop you from doctoring up a boarding pass with your name and today's date.
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Watch on YouTubeYou know, it was a little bit, how can I say doctored.
- You know, it was a little bit, how can I say doctored.
- Unless they've been doctored so that they don't have testosterone under castrati.
- When their own studies turned out to have surfaced health problems, they rewrote them and doctored them and so forth.
Examples
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The evidence was clearly doctored to mislead the jury during the trial.
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It was reported that someone had doctored the financial documents to hide the losses.
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"I think we need to doctor that ad."
Fiction book (1999) -
The campaign has involved attempts to doctor the evidence in order to create a national and global scare.
Academic text (2007) -
The answer is that it's not that easy to spot a coauthor who is doctoring data.
Blog text (9) -
In this emergency, he decided to doctor our certificate of passage and substitute the new date and the name of the new ship for the old one.
Academic text (1998) -
NBC has been caught doctoring 911 tapes to sway public opinion.
Blog text (24) -
They're circulating the rumors on their blog, doctoring that photo, and spreading it all over the Internet.
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Why would I doctor the books in order to improve the overall test scores of the student body just so I could collect bonus funds from the state, which I willfully misappropriated, in order to pay off large gambling debts?
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He decided to doctor the photos before posting them online to make them seem more appealing.
Synonyms
234
4.2
To make or change something to trick people
77
4.6
To change facts so they become false or misleading
45
7.3
To make documents or facts not true to deceive people
41
7.3
To make up false information to trick people
34
7.4
To change facts or stories so they are not true
16
7.5
To change numbers or facts dishonestly to hide the truth
13
8.6
To change numbers or records to hide the truth
4
5.9
To say something that is not exactly what happened to make it look better
2
8.1
To change something to hide mistakes or trick people
Antonyms
- Specialized
30
6.7
Show that something is real or that a person is who they say they are
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Literature
9
7.1
A person who makes news or events look better to influence people's opinions
- Specialized
1
5.4
A university degree that shows you did new research after several years of study
- Specialized
1
7.0
A university degree given after study or to honour someone for important work in law
- Formal
1
9.6
A saint in the Roman Catholic Church honored for important religious teaching and writing
1
5.0
A university degree in science that universities give for important research or as an honor
- Specialized
1
7.1
A high-level degree for study or achievement in arts and humanities
- Specialized
1
8.6
A high university degree in religious study given to senior scholars
- Specialized
1
6.3
A special degree that a university gives to people for work in the fine arts
1
3.0
A doctor who cares for women's health, especially during pregnancy and for the parts used for having babies
1
4.2
A university degree for people who lead public health programs and make health policy
- Specialized
1
8.9
A brightly colored fish with no scales that lives in cold northern waters
- Specialized
1
4.5
A university degree for advanced study and research about teaching and schools
- Specialized
1
8.9
An honorary university degree given for important work in literature or the humanities
- Specialized
1
6.4
An advanced university degree for people who perform, write, or conduct music
The highest university degree in theology given by the Catholic Church
- Specialized
1
5.1
A doctor qualified in osteopathic medicine who can treat patients, prescribe medicine, and perform surgery
- Specialized
1
4.8
A high-level degree for people who test and treat problems with sight
- Specialized
1
6.7
A university degree that shows advanced study or performance in music
- Specialized
1
4.4
A degree dentists receive after dental school that lets them operate on teeth
- Specialized
An honorary university degree given for important work in subjects like history or literature
- Specialized
A brightly colored tropical fish with sharp spines found in the Caribbean
- Archaic
A doctor who treated people with smallpox and other contagious diseases during outbreaks
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Doctor as a verb can also mean to change or falsify something. A helpful way to remember this is to think of a bad kind of 'fixing': someone 'doctors' a paper like a doctor 'fixes' a body, but here the change is meant to deceive.