1. • noun - a licensed medical practitioner
   • noun - (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching
   • noun - children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
   • verb - alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
   • verb - give medical treatment to
   • verb - restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
2. • A person, especially a physician, dentist, or veterinarian, trained in the healing arts and licensed to practice.
   • A person who has earned the highest academic degree awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.
   • A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.
   • Abbr.
   • Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.
   • An eminent theologian.
   • A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.
   • Any of several brightly colored artificial flies used in fly fishing.
   • To give medical treatment to: “[He] does more than practice medicine.
   • To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.
   • To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself: doctored the evidence.
   • See Synonyms at adulterate.
   • To practice medicine.
3. • adj - to treat medically [v -ED, -ING, -S] : DOCTORLY

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