doctor
noun
a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
have been doctoring
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present perfect progressiveof doctor.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Cubs players treaded lightly on the notion Lackey might have been doctoring the ball.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2015
Professor Bettenridge and his accomplice, Webb Nelson, have been doctoring the mines with a powder and an outer shield which dissolves in water.
From Signal in the Dark by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
“Perhaps your friends have been doctoring him overmuch; but I shall judge when I see him.”
From The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by William Henry Giles Kingston
Ugly, isn't it?" he went on; "and to think I have been doctoring up these fellows for the last thirty years—saving their lives, sir, by wholesale.
From Rujub, the Juggler by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
