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doing ill

doing ill is the present participle and gerund 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 doing ill

What is doing ill the present participle and gerund of?
Doing ill is the present participle and gerund of do ill.

Words near doing ill in the dictionary

  1. doing drugs
  2. doing exactly what it says on the tin
  3. doing for
  4. doing good
  5. doing gooseberry
  6. doing ill
  7. doing in
  8. doing it
  9. doing it brown
  10. doing it tough
  11. doing it up brown

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