doctor
/ˈdɑktɚ/ verbo C2En español: doctorar, adulterar
- To act as a medical doctor to. · Her children doctored her back to health.
- To act as a medical doctor.
- To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
- To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior. · They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.· We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
- To genetically alter an extant species. · Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
- To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document. · To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
- To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
He/she/it doctors · Pasado doctored · Participio pasado doctored · Forma en -ing doctoring
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- doctor
- He/she/it
- doctors
- Pasado
- doctored
- Participio pasado
- doctored
- Forma en -ing
- doctoring
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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I thought maybe he was going to the doctor’s.”
As soon as her doctor allowed her to put her foot out-of-doors she hurried up to Green Gables, bursting with curiosity to see Matthew and Marilla’s orphan, concerning whom all sorts of stories and suppositions had gone abroad in Avonlea.
Young Mary Joe says--and Father and Mother are away to town and there’s nobody to go for the doctor.
“He’s gone to harness the sorrel mare to go to Carmody for the doctor,” said Anne, who was hurrying on hood and jacket.
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