do ill

Verb

do ill (third-person singular simple present does ill, present participle doing ill, simple past did ill, past participle done ill)

1. (idiomatic) To harm, to injure.
   • But if ye would know, what grace they meene, go, and looke, and learne emonges them, and ye ſhall ſee that it is: First, to bluſh at nothing, And bluſhing in youth, ſayth Ariſtotle is nothyng els, but feare to do ill: which feare beyng once luſtely fraid away from youth, thẽ foloweth, to dare do...1570, Roger Ascham, “The First Booke for the Youth”, in The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teachying Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, …, London: Printed by Iohn...
   • Me like a dog ſhe out of dores did thruſt, / Miſcalling me by many a bitter name, / That neuer did her ill, ne once deſerued blame.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 287

   Synonyms:

   harm