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doctor

('d/A/kt/@/r )

a licensed medical practitioner(noun.person)

Example:
I felt so bad I went to see my doctor.

Synonym:
doc, dr., md, medico, physician

source: wordnet30
(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching(noun.person)

Example:
The Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages.

Synonym:
doctor of the church

source: wordnet30
children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office(noun.act)

Example:
The children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor.

source: wordnet30
a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution(noun.person)

Example:
She is a doctor of philosophy in physics.

Synonym:
dr.

source: wordnet30
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.(noun)

source: webster1913

alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive(verb.change)

Synonym:
doctor up, sophisticate

source: wordnet30
give medical treatment to(verb.body)

source: wordnet30
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken(verb.change)

Synonym:
bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on
Antonym:
break, bust

source: wordnet30
To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.(verb)

source: webster1913
To practice physic.(verb)

source: webster1913

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