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does ill

does ill is the third-person singular simple present indicative of do ill.

Meaning of 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...
    Synonyms:
    harm

Questions about does ill

What is does ill the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Does ill is the third-person singular simple present indicative of do ill.

Words near does ill in the dictionary

  1. does down
  2. does drugs
  3. does for
  4. does good
  5. does gooseberry
  6. does ill
  7. does in
  8. does it
  9. does it brown
  10. does it tough
  11. does it up brown

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