undoctor

To divest of the character or status of a doctor.

Verb

  1. To divest of the character or status of a doctor.
    • July 15, 1833, Jane Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle My brother-in-law is a paragon of the class, but he is so by—in as much as possible—undoctoring himself.
  2. To restore (something illicitly altered) to its correct form.
    • If their accountants are undoctoring the books properly, there's evidence he's ripped off something close to two million bucks on this Arizona thing alone. - 2012, William L. DeAndrea, Killed in the Act:

Origin

From un- + doctor.

Forms

undoctors undoctoring undoctored