Scathe

Quick meaning: Scathe is a noun meaning (countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable) Someone who, or something which, causes harm; an injurer.
2. (uncountable) Something to be mourned or regretted.
3. (figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.
4. (countable, Scots law, obsolete) An injury or loss for which compensation is sought in a lawsuit; damage; also, expenses incurred by a claimant; costs.
5. (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.
6. (archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• scathes
• scath
• scaith
• scathing
• scathed
• scathest
• scathedst
• scatheth

Synonyms for scathe

Depending on context, synonyms include harmer, damage, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include harm, damage, hurt, denounce, scathefulness, scathefire.

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