do violence to

English

Verb

do violence to (third-person singular simple present does violence to, present participle doing violence to, simple past did violence to, past participle done violence to)

1. To gravely harm.

   Synonyms: damage, wound; see also Thesaurus:harm

   • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:

     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" - […] .

Further reading

• “do violence to”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “do violence to”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “do violence to”, in Collins English Dictionary.