to doctor
10
7.7
- verb
- /ˈdɑktər/
:
falsificar
- There is nothing to stop you from doctoring up a boarding pass with your name and today's date.
You 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
195
4.2
To make or change something to trick people
138
8.6
To change numbers or records to hide the truth
97
4.6
To change facts so they become false or misleading
50
7.3
To make up false information to trick people
44
7.3
To make documents or facts not true to deceive people
30
7.4
To change facts or stories so they are not true
11
7.5
To change numbers or facts dishonestly to hide the truth
3
5.9
To say something that is not exactly what happened to make it look better
1
8.1
To change something to hide mistakes or trick people
Antonyms
- Specialized
35
6.7
Show that something is real or that a person is who they say they are
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Literature
7
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
- Formal
1
9.6
A saint in the Roman Catholic Church honored for important religious teaching and writing
- Specialized
1
8.6
A high university degree in religious study given to senior scholars
1
4.2
A university degree for people who lead public health programs and make health policy
1
5.0
A university degree in science that universities give for important research or as an honor
- Specialized
A degree dentists receive after dental school that lets them operate on teeth
- Specialized
A university degree for advanced study and research about teaching and schools
- Specialized
A special degree that a university gives to people for work in the fine arts
- Specialized
An honorary university degree given for important work in literature or the humanities
- Specialized
An honorary university degree given for important work in subjects like history or literature
- Specialized
A university degree given after study or to honour someone for important work in law
- Specialized
A university degree that shows advanced study or performance in music
- Specialized
An advanced university degree for people who perform, write, or conduct music
- Specialized
A high-level degree for people who test and treat problems with sight
- Specialized
A doctor qualified in osteopathic medicine who can treat patients, prescribe medicine, and perform surgery
The highest university degree in theology given by the Catholic Church
- Specialized
A brightly colored tropical fish with sharp spines found in the Caribbean
- Specialized
A brightly colored fish with no scales that lives in cold northern waters
- Archaic
A doctor who treated people with smallpox and other contagious diseases during outbreaks
A doctor who cares for women's health, especially during pregnancy and for the parts used for having babies
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.