Synonyms: 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
Similar words: child's play, play
Definition: activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
Usage: Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child
Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., physician, MD, medico
Definition: a licensed medical practitioner
Usage: I felt so bad I went to see my doctor
Similar words: medical man, medical practitioner
Definition: someone who practices medicine
Definition: a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
Usage: she is a doctor of philosophy in physics
Similar words: scholar, scholarly person, student, bookman
Definition: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer
Definition: someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology
Synonyms: doctor
Definition: give medical treatment to
Similar words: treat, care for
Definition: provide treatment for
Usage: The doctor treated my broken leg; The nurses cared for the bomb victims; The patient must be treated right away or she will die; Treat the infection with antibiotics
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: meliorate, improve, ameliorate, amend, better
Definition: to make better
Usage: The editor improved the manuscript with his changes
Synonyms: sophisticate, doctor, doctor up
Definition: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
Usage: Sophisticate rose water with geraniol
Similar words: adulterate, dilute, debase, load, stretch
Definition: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
Usage: adulterate liquor