Main entry: doctor
Definition: children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
Usage: the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor
Main entry: doc, doctor, Dr., physician, MD, medico
Definition: a licensed medical practitioner
Usage: I felt so bad I went to see my doctor
Definition: a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
Usage: she is a doctor of philosophy in physics
Main entry: Doctor, Doctor of the Church
Definition: (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching
Usage: the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages
Main entry: doctor
Definition: give medical treatment to
Main entry: doctor, bushel, touch on, furbish up, fix, repair, restore, mend
Definition: restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
Usage: She repaired her TV set; Repair my shoes please
Main entry: sophisticate, doctor, doctor up
Definition: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
Usage: Sophisticate rose water with geraniol