scathe
[verb]
Synonyms: lambaste, blister, castigate, excoriate, flay, lash (into), scarify, scorch, scourge, slash

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Related Idioms: give holy hell, give the business, rip (someone) up one side and down the other

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scathe noun. [skeɪð] Now arch. & dial. Also (Scot.) skaith. OE.
[Old Norse skaði = Old English sćeaÞa malefactor, (rarely) injury, Old Frisian skatha injury, Old Saxon skaÞo malefactor, Old High German skado (German Schade) injury, harm, from Germanic, whence also Gothic skaÞis harm.]
1. A person who does harm; a malefactor; a wretch, a fiend. OE-ME.

2. Harm, damage; an injury, a loss. OE.
do scathe, work scathe do harm. have scathe, take scathe be harmed.
■ T. H. Huxley It was cheering..to hear you got through winter..without scathe.
b. A thing which does harm. L16.

3. Cause for sorrow or regret; a pity, a shame. ME.

■ scatheful adjective harmful, hurtful OE.

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scathe verb trans. [skeɪð] Also (Scot.) skaith. ME.
[Old Norse skaða = Old English sćeaÞian, Old Frisian skathia, Old Saxon scaÞon, Old High German skadōn (Dutch, German schaden), from Germanic.]
1. Injure, harm, damage. Now chiefly as scathed ppl adjective. ME.

2. Injure or destroy by fire, lightning, etc.; blast, scorch, sear. poet. & rhet. E19.

3. fig. Hurt or wither with sharp criticism etc. Chiefly as SCATHING ppl adjective. M19.

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