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undoctor en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + doctor.

Meanings

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.
   • 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. 2012, William L. DeAndrea, Killed in the Act:

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