# do ill

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/do-ill
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To harm, to injure.

## 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.

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