Idiom
do ill
Meaning
To harm, to injure.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He would never do ill to anyone.”
“The old man lived quietly in the woods and never did ill to his neighbors.”
“Despite the rumors spread by his rivals, the king insisted that he had done no ill to the people of his realm.”
Examples
simple
“He would never do ill to anyone.”
contextual
“The old man lived quietly in the woods and never did ill to his neighbors.”
complex
“Despite the rumors spread by his rivals, the king insisted that he had done no ill to the people of his realm.”
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