Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bedoctor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bedoc-tor
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To confer a doctoral degree upon.

Transitive verb

verb

To address as 'doctor'.

Transitive verb

verb

To care for in the manner of a doctor.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"[...] why bedoctor this charming French writer?"
"Given the recent trend, the profession will soon bedoctor each year twice as many practitioners as the original total membership of the Association."
"And half the neurotic, ever-bedoctored women owe their cowardly physical condition to the fact that when they were little children they were allowed to stay away from school, excused from common household duties because they had a headache or a cramp somewhere."
"I'm with yearn, (my) sweetheart's too; Both of us should have a doctor, Doctor to bedoctor us, To deliver us from yearning."

Etymology

From be- (“on, at, upon”) + doctor.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

bedoctors (present, singular) bedoctoring (participle, present) bedoctored (participle, past) bedoctored (past)

Questions

What does bedoctor mean?: To confer a doctoral degree upon.
Where does bedoctor come from?: From be- (“on, at, upon”) + doctor.

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