doctor
noun
a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
has doctored
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present perfectof doctor (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Mackay speaks fast and persuasively, like a sincere used-car salesman who has doctored the mileage and seems constantly astonished by the ease of his own success.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013
One day a colleague confronts Jonas about a report he has doctored, describing the plight of a family from Liberia.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2011
Governor Long has doctored the laws governing the charitable and eleemosynary institutions of the State . . . the road laws . . . the educational laws.
From Time Magazine Archive
Editor E. H. W. Meyerstein has doctored Coxere's prose to a point where it is comprehensible, but he has let it retain its near-Biblical simplicity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Milk is, as has already been stated, very susceptible to contamination, and that which is infected with putrefactive bacteria is not fit for food even if the dealer has doctored it with formaldehyde.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
