Scathe

/skeɪð/ · noun

Meaning

(countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.
2. (countable) Someone who, or something which, causes harm; an injurer.
3. (countable, Scots law, obsolete) An injury or loss for which compensation is sought in a lawsuit; damage; also, expenses incurred by a claimant; costs.
4. (uncountable) Something to be mourned or regretted.
5. (archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.
6. (by extension, chiefly literary and poetic) To harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source; to blast; to scorch; to wither.
7. (figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.

Example Sentences

Therefore great Lords bee as your titles vvitnes, / Imperious, and impatient of your vvrongs, / And vvherein Rome hath done you any ſkath, / Let him make treable ſatisfaction.

[S]trong ale and noble cheere / t'aſſwage breeme winters ſcathes.

I red ye weel, tak care o' ſkaith, / See there's a gully!

Let us take the scathe and the scorn candidly home to us;—and try to prepare for doing better.

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.

'Twas bull, 'twas mitred Minotaur, / A dead disbowelled mystery; / The mummy of a buried faith / Stark from the charnel without scathe, / Its wings stood for the light to bathe,— […]

The pride I trampled is now my scathe, / For it tramples me again.

They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him.

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• scathes
• scath
• skaith
• scaith
• scathing
• scathed
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