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do violence to

do violence to verb: to gravely harm.

Verb

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

  1. To gravely harm.
    • He starts by stating (in somewhat dated terms) that despite the report's focus on profitability, "none of the proposals put forward here does violence to concepts which others might reasonably have wished to include" -[…].2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48
    Synonyms:
    damage, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill

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Forms of do violence to

third-person singular presentdoes violence to
present participledoing violence to
pastdid violence to
past participledone violence to

Questions about do violence to

What does do violence to mean?
Do violence to means to gravely harm.
What part of speech is do violence to?
Do violence to is a verb.
What is the past tense of do violence to?
The past tense of do violence to is did violence to.

Words near do violence to in the dictionary

  1. do to death
  2. do tricks on it
  3. do unto others
  4. do unto others as you would have them do unto you
  5. do up
  6. do violence to
  7. do want
  8. do well
  9. do well by doing good
  10. do well for oneself
  11. do what

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