do violence to

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do violence to

verb does violence to · doing violence to · did violence to · done violence to

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" -[…].
Similar: damage, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, forwork

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@misc{do_violence_to_2026,
  title = {do violence to},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/do%20violence%20to},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}