Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To harm or injure, especially by fire.
- transitive verb To criticize or denounce severely; excoriate.
- noun Harm or injury.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To injure; harm; hurt.
- noun Harm; injury; damage; mischief.
- noun Disadvantage; a matter of regret; a pity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Harm ;damage ;injury ;hurt ;misfortune . - verb archaic To
injure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of damaging something or someone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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'scathing satire' (does satire ever 'scathe'?) or Fielding's rough horseplay.
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Oh, boy, is the letter that I write to Customer Service going to scathe.
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The bootstrap callousness and sometimes-unnoticed regiment of ones outlook on life can easily scorn, ignore and sometimes even scathe the existence of those who are so heavily compromised.
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People quote his scathe on the British intelligentsia, but forget that his attacks went beyond one, single quote or his two most famous books, Animal Farm and 1984.
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If you wish to scathe Mexico, balance it with available blood curdling, statistics from your/our own US of A, provided below.
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For now men fell on them, and they defended themselves in good and manly wise, and were the scathe of many a man, nor would iron bite on them.
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Now telleth the tale concerning the sons of Gudrun, that she had arrayed their war-raiment in such wise, that no steel would bite thereon; and she bade them play not with stones or other heavy matters, for that it would be to their scathe if they did so.
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Oh, and most of the scathe in my post was fairly mild. chouinard and I tend to substitute perjoratives for ... everything, actually.
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He will come next by some scathe in the hobbleshow, and then it will be, ‘Dorothy, get the lint,’ and ‘Dorothy, spread the plaster;’ but now it is nothing but nonsense, and a lie, and impossibility, that can come out of
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Reviewers called it a scathing, devastating expose of the former centerfold and reality star, but frankly, it wasn't that hard to scathe and devastate.
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