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 →

2) changed in a dishonest way (a doctored photo). tree →

3) treated medically, in a simple way. tree →

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 →
• We had our tomcat doctored. tree →
• Police found the documents were doctored. tree →
• She doctored her drink with extra sugar. tree →
• The receipts were doctored to hide the money. tree →
• Grandma doctored my cut knee with a plaster. tree →
• When he had doctored people awhile, but not long, a rich and great lord had some money stolen. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «doctored» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.