0 present participle of wrong
1 to treat someone in an unfair or unacceptable way:
She felt deeply wronged by his accusations.
If we violate one of our positional obligations, say by breaking a promise, we harm them in virtue of wronging them by breaking our word.
Is she harming or wronging her child by exercising this new power?
It is to prevent their wronging the workers that the enforceable duty of the minimum wage falls on them.
Cloning is quite possible without either harming or wronging the child who would be created.
And, finally, we will have no need to give up useful distinctions between imposing pain on and harming a given person, and between harming and wronging a given person.
Indeed, one of them may feel sorry for the other partner and may feel that he or she is "wronging" that person.
They are not righting themselves; they are wronging themselves.
There, any employer who is wronging his workpeople has to reckon immediately not only with the workers' organisations but with the employers' associations.
