Meaning & use
Doctoring
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Altering or tampering with something, often dishonestly, to change its appearance or effect.
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Someone was caught doctoring the accounts to hide the missing funds.
The tabloid was sued for doctoring the photograph to make the actor look intoxicated.
A note on using this word
Besides its literal sense of practicing medicine, 'doctoring' commonly means altering evidence, documents, or images.
Words with a similar meaning
falsifyingtampering with
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Working as or practicing as a physician.
After thirty years of doctoring in a small mountain town, she finally retired.
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