(n): someone who practices medicine
(n): (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching
(n): someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology
(n): children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
(n): activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
(n): a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
(n): a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
(v): alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
(v): corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
(v): give medical treatment to
(v): provide treatment for
(v): restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
(v): to make better
Exactly.
Doctor... Doctor who?
"If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the
doctor that's doctoring the doctor doctor the
doctor the way the doctor that's being doctored
doctors, or does s/he doctor the doctor the way the
doctor that's doctoring doctors doctors?"
--Tongue Twisters and Tricky Tanglers by Duncan Emrich
Contronymic in the sense: heal vs. spoil (as a drink).