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Doctored vs Deceive - What's the difference?

doctored | deceive |

As verbs the difference between doctored and deceive

is that doctored is while deceive is to trick or mislead.

As an adjective doctored

is altered; falsified; skewed; manipulated.

doctored

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • altered; falsified; skewed; manipulated
  • :doctored statistics
  • repaired
  • deceive

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Verb

    (deceiv)
  • To trick or mislead.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}

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