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done ill

done ill is the past participle 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 done ill

What is done ill the past participle of?
Done ill is the past participle of do ill.

Words near done ill in the dictionary

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

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