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do justice

do justice verb: to allow to be apprehended in its full scope.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To allow to be apprehended in its full scope.
    • It was classified as "all others" under vehicle type […], but that category doesn't do a motorized barstool justice.2009 March 30, “Newark police cite man for driving drunk after crashing motorized barstool”, in The Advocate, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013
    • And it’s daunting because each segment has to tell a full, complete story in something like six minutes while doing justice to revered source material and including the non-stop laughs and genius gags that characterized The Simpsons in its god-like prime.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  2. (idiomatic) To enjoy to the full.
    • […] a magnificent cold supper was awaiting him in the dining-room, where he did full justice to a game pie and a bottle of claret.1935, Russell Thorndike, The Scarecrow Rides

do justice meaning in Bengali

do justice in Bengali

পূর্ণভাবে উপভোগ করা

Antonyms of do justice

  • do injustice

Forms of do justice

third-person singular presentdoes justice
present participledoing justice
pastdid justice
past participledone justice

Questions about do justice

What does do justice mean?
Do justice means to allow to be apprehended in its full scope.
What is do justice in Bengali?
Do justice in Bengali is পূর্ণভাবে উপভোগ করা. See Do justice meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is do justice?
Do justice is a verb.
What is the past tense of do justice?
The past tense of do justice is did justice.

Words near do justice in the dictionary

  1. do it to it
  2. do it tough
  3. do it up
  4. do it up brown
  5. do it yourself
  6. do justice
  7. do loop
  8. do loops
  9. do lunch
  10. do me a favour
  11. do me a lemon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: do justice (page history and authors); do justice (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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