just what the doctor ordered
doctor
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈdɒk.tər/ us /ˈdɑːk.tɚ/

doctorverb[T] (CHANGE)

to change a document in order to deceive people: 篡改，涂改
He was found to have provided the court with doctored evidence.他被发现向法庭提供了篡改过的证据。
to secretly put a harmful or poisonous substance into food or drink: 下毒，投毒
be doctored withBottles of lemonade doctored with rat poison were discovered in the kitchen.厨房里发现了几瓶掺了老鼠药的柠檬汁。
in sports such as cricket and baseball, to secretly cut or put a substance on the ball in order to get an advantage:
The ball was moving about so much that many people thought it had been doctored.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Adapting and modifying
acclimate
acclimation
acclimatization
acclimatize
acclimatize to something
amendment
chameleon
change with/keep up with/move with the timesidiom
configure
counter-adaptation
pliant
pliantly
preadaptation
preadaptive
put something back
unacclimatized
unadapted
unamended
write someone out of something
Zelig

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Poisoning and allergy
Baseball & rounders

doctorverb[T] (ANIMAL)

UKinformal
to remove the sexual organs of an animal in order to prevent it from producing young阉割（动物）

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Zoology: veterinary medicine
acaricide
altered
animal doctor
anti-rabies
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
BSE
cowpox
emasculate
lame
mangy
monkeypox
mpox
myxomatosis
neutered
nosema
put something/someone down
quarantine
scrapie
veterinarian
worm

doctor | American Dictionary

doctor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdɑk·tər/(abbreviationDr.)

doctornoun[C] (MEDICINE)

a person with a medical degree whose job is to treat people who are ill or injured:
This health plan lets you choose your own doctor.

doctornoun[C] (EDUCATION)

a person who has one of the highest-ranking degrees given by a university
doctor
verb[ T ]
us/ˈdɑk·tər/

doctorverb[T] (CHANGE)

to change something in order to deceive people:
He claimed the photo had been doctored.

doctor | Business English

doctor
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈdɒktər/us
someone whose job is to treat people who are ill or injured:
Tell your line manager if you need time off to go and see a doctor.
doctor
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈdɒktər/us
to change a document in order to deceive people:
They doctored the company's balance sheet to make it look more profitable.

Examples of doctor

doctor
At a particular "real" moment, will doctor, nurse, patient, and family agree to what had been planned when the topic was "theoretical"?
Second, physically speaking, patients are usually helped in any such transfer by a nurse, a doctor, or one of the patient's relatives.
One way of facilitating such changes was reported to be through the employment of salaried doctors.
Many doctors who worked in the relevant period must be available for questioning and hospital records have survived.
The role of a doctor is to help the patient at all times and remove the anxiety surrounding the condition.
A doctor told him that this condition was caused by excess consumption of roasted and fried food.
She says that her knee hurt when she was young, and doctors told her parents and schoolteachers never to let her play sports.
Since such an experiment must extend over a long period of time, there is also the problem of turnover of doctors and counsellors.
The faecal specimen was usually collected on the first visit to the doctor (median 1, range 1-6 visits).
The placebo effect is related to the patient's and doctor's expectations on treatment and to the quality of the patient-doctor relationship.
Nurses and patients saw a difference between nurse practitioners and doctors which was mainly related to consultation style, accessibility and length of consultation.
To do otherwise is akin to doctoring a sick person on the basis of global health statistics.
It is clear that not even every doctor has this message firmly engraved on his mind.
Eleven percent had taken a tranquillizer, antidepressant or sleeping tablet, and all these compounds had been prescribed by a doctor.
As the family doctor is generally not considered to be fully equipped for assessment of epilepsy, this can be described as 'doctor's delay'.
See all examples of doctor
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.