Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To harm or injure, especially by fire.
- transitive v. To criticize or denounce severely; excoriate.
- n. Harm or injury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune.
- v. To injure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To injure; harm; hurt.
- n. Harm; injury; damage; mischief.
- n. Disadvantage; a matter of regret; a pity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the act of damaging something or someone
Etymologies
Examples
-
'scathing satire' (does satire ever 'scathe'?) or Fielding's rough horseplay.
-
Oh, boy, is the letter that I write to Customer Service going to scathe.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you wish to scathe Mexico, balance it with available blood curdling, statistics from your/our own US of A, provided below.
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Oh, and most of the scathe in my post was fairly mild. chouinard and I tend to substitute perjoratives for ... everything, actually.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.