Dictionary entry

Wrong (5)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wrong (?; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Wronged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wronging.]

1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.

He that sinneth... wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36.

2. To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.

I rather choose

To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,

Than I will wrong such honorable men. Shak.