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DOCTOR UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does doctor up mean?
• DOCTOR UP (verb)
The verb DOCTOR UP has 1 sense:
1. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
Familiarity information: DOCTOR UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
doctor; doctor up; sophisticate
Context example:
Sophisticate rose water with geraniol
Hypernyms (to "doctor up" is one way to...):
adulterate; debase; dilute; load; stretch (corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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