英语词汇“to doctor up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To change the appearance or composition of (something) in order to achieve a particular result, typically either for the purposes of deception or to make an improvement. Cf. sense 2.

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1725 Applebee's Orig. Weekly Jrnl. 27 Nov. Have not you and I..as much right to doctor up a Journal, and take three half-pence for the rectifying the Brains of Mankind, as this dres'd up Gew Gaw of a Mountebank has to give his Packets out, with his good for nothing Plaisters.

1822 C. Lillie Brit. Perfumer ix. 330 This imitation consists of very base and dangerous materials. These are doctored up and coloured.

1891 C. M. Clay Railway Issue 14 He alleges that President Breyfogle has doctored up the records of the directory and packed the boad with his personal friends.

1939 Consumers' Guide 10 Oct. 5/1 Dealers should stop doctoring up samples and misrepresenting quality.

1987 Associated Press (Nexis) 14 Dec. The alcohol was in a juice can that ‘had been doctored up’.

2020 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. Doctor up the bowls to your liking with chili flakes, fish sauce, sliced and pickled jalapenos and sweet red chili paste.

2. transitive. To give medical care or attention to (a person or animal); to dose up with something. Cf. sense 3a. Now chiefly U.S. colloquial.

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1741 Trials S. Goodere, M. Mahony, & C. White 25 The Captain said to the Doctor, Doctor, I have got an old mad Fellow here, you must doctor him up as well as you can.

1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage (1845) I. xi. 156 We'll doctor him up while you're gone.

1895 House Furnishing Rev. Dec. 216/2 I nursed her and doctored her up, and she finally got well.

1954 Harder Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. at Doctor I doctored him up with white linament [sic].

1996 J. H. Hallas Killing Ground on Okinawa iii. 45 Chaisson and the corpsman doused the holes [in his legs] with sulfa powder, applied some bandages, and doctored him up.

2014 S. Choquette Walking Home 208 They doctored him up with some strange natural remedies that surprisingly worked.

单词	to doctor up
释义	> as lemmas to doctor up to doctor up 1. transitive. To change the appearance or composition of (something) in order to achieve a particular result, typically either for the purposes of deception or to make an improvement. Cf. sense 2. ΚΠ 1725 Applebee's Orig. Weekly Jrnl. 27 Nov. Have not you and I..as much right to doctor up a Journal, and take three half-pence for the rectifying the Brains of Mankind, as this dres'd up Gew Gaw of a Mountebank has to give his Packets out, with his good for nothing Plaisters. 1822 C. Lillie Brit. Perfumer ix. 330 This imitation consists of very base and dangerous materials. These are doctored up and coloured. 1891 C. M. Clay Railway Issue 14 He alleges that President Breyfogle has doctored up the records of the directory and packed the boad with his personal friends. 1939 Consumers' Guide 10 Oct. 5/1 Dealers should stop doctoring up samples and misrepresenting quality. 1987 Associated Press (Nexis) 14 Dec. The alcohol was in a juice can that ‘had been doctored up’. 2020 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. Doctor up the bowls to your liking with chili flakes, fish sauce, sliced and pickled jalapenos and sweet red chili paste. 2. transitive. To give medical care or attention to (a person or animal); to dose up with something. Cf. sense 3a. Now chiefly U.S. colloquial. ΚΠ 1741 Trials S. Goodere, M. Mahony, & C. White 25 The Captain said to the Doctor, Doctor, I have got an old mad Fellow here, you must doctor him up as well as you can. 1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage (1845) I. xi. 156 We'll doctor him up while you're gone. 1895 House Furnishing Rev. Dec. 216/2 I nursed her and doctored her up, and she finally got well. 1954 Harder Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. at Doctor I doctored him up with white linament [sic]. 1996 J. H. Hallas Killing Ground on Okinawa iii. 45 Chaisson and the corpsman doused the holes [in his legs] with sulfa powder, applied some bandages, and doctored him up. 2014 S. Choquette Walking Home 208 They doctored him up with some strange natural remedies that surprisingly worked. extracted from doctorv. < as lemmas
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