"do violence to" is a hardly used expression?

Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms 1991 includes the following.

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violence

...3 do violence to:

a harm, damage, injure: The scandal did violence to her reputation. Humphrey's singing could do violence to any melody.

b warp, twist, distort: In reporting that her views are antifeminist, the newspaper did violence to the import of her speech.

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Oxford Thesaurus of English Third edition 2009 deleted the whole description.

Did the recent lexicographers intentionally exclude that expression because English speakers all over the world scarcely uses that?