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# doctored

«doctored» in Mova's school dictionary: **neutered, had an operation so it cannot have babies…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, adjective (doctor, doctors, doctored, doctoring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (of a pet) neutered, had an operation so it cannot have babies (old-fashioned, US). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#m1)

2) changed in a dishonest way (a doctored photo). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#m2)

3) treated medically, in a simple way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

The pet sense is an old American country euphemism; the «changed dishonestly» sense is very common in news and police talk. All regions.

### examples

- The photo had been doctored to add a ghost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#x1)
- We had our tomcat doctored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#x2)
- Police found the documents were doctored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#x3)
- She doctored her drink with extra sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#x4)
- The receipts were doctored to hide the money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#x5)
- Grandma doctored my cut knee with a plaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#x6)
- When he had doctored people awhile, but not long, a rich and great lord had some money stolen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/#x7)

### note

Trap: in news «doctored» means faked. Not about becoming a doctor.

### In the corpora

- ["Doctored" (old-fashioned US) means a pet has been neutered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «doctored» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doctored/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.