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do violence to

verb

Definitions

  1. 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" -[…].

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for do violence to. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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