Meaning & use
doctored
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Altered or tampered with dishonestly to deceive, especially by changing facts, records, or images.
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The photo had been doctored to make the crowd look larger than it was.
Investigators found that the company's financial records had been doctored to hide the losses.
A note on using this word
Also used literally for having received medical treatment, but the more common modern sense refers to dishonest alteration of documents, images, or accounts.
Words with a similar meaning
falsifiedtampered with
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Words with an opposite meaning
unaltered
Another way to use it
2. verb
Treated medically; given medical care.
The nurse doctored his cuts before wrapping them in a bandage.
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