The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doctored; p. pr. & vb. n. Doctoring.]
To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang]
Wiktionary
n. Treatment by a doctor. vb. (present participle of doctor English)
Usage examples of "doctoring".
No, all this doctoring was to do something more, to prevent pregnancy during carnival, to assure pregnancy afterward.
For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia, with doctoring tackle.
I say role because doctoring involves you in a kind of cultural performance, the gestures, the lilts, the motions of decent power.
There was more to doctoring, much more to healing, she knew, than skill.
Schultz, who on more than one occasion has been present at a doctoring, gives the following account of one of the performances.