wrong
/ˈɹɔŋ/ verb C2- To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by. · The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
- To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
- To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
He/she/it wrongs · Past wronged · Past participle wronged · -ing form wronging
Verb forms
- Base form
- wrong
- He/she/it
- wrongs
- Past
- wronged
- Past participle
- wronged
- -ing form
- wronging
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“As to taking command of the vessel,” replied Morrel, “that was his duty as captain’s mate; as to losing a day and a half off the Island of Elba, he was wrong, unless the vessel needed repairs.”
A FLEA thus questioned an Ox: “What ails you, that being so huge and strong, you submit to the wrongs you receive from men and slave for them day by day, while I, being so small a creature, mercilessly feed on their flesh and drink their blood without stint?” The Ox replied: “I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and shoulders.” “Woe’s me!” said the flea; “this very patting which you like, whenever it happens to me, brings with it my inevitable destruction.”
“You people with hearts,” he said, “have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
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