undoctor

English

Etymology

un- + doctor

Verb

undoctor (third-person singular simple present undoctors, present participle undoctoring, simple past and past participle undoctored)

  1. (transitive) To divest of the character or status of a doctor.
    • July 15, 1833, Jane Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle
      My brother-in-law is a paragon of the class, but he is so by—in as much as possible—undoctoring himself.
  2. (transitive) To restore (something illicitly altered) to its correct form.
    • 2012, William L. DeAndrea, Killed in the Act:
      If their accountants are undoctoring the books properly, there's evidence he's ripped off something close to two million bucks on this Arizona thing alone.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.