scathe
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.Examples: "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!"Britisharchaiccountabledialectaluncountable
2. (countable) Someone who, or something which, causes harm; an injurer.Examples: "The pride I trampled is now my scathe, / For it tramples me again."Synonyms: harmerBritisharchaiccountabledialectal
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.Britisharchaiccountabledialectalobsolete
4. (uncountable) Something to be mourned or regretted.Examples: "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."Britisharchaicdialectaluncountable
verb (English)
1. (archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.Examples: "This trick may chance to ſcath you I knovv vvhat, / You muſt contrarie me, […]"; "Thir Glory witherd. As when Heavens Fire / Hath ſcath'd the Forreſt Oaks, or Mountain Pines, / With ſinged top their ſtately growth though bare / Stands on the blaſted Heath."; "Think, wicked Sinner, wha ye're ſkaithing: / It's juſt the Blue-gown badge an' claithing, / O' Saunts; tak that, ye lea'e them naething, / To ken them by, / Frae ony unregenerate Heathen, / Like you or I."Synonyms: damage, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dereBritishScotlandarchaicdialectaltransitive
2. (archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.Examples: "VVell goe too vvild oates, ſpend thrift, prodigall, / Ile croſſe thy name quite from my reckoning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall skathe thee ſomevvhat, / I vvill not ſay vvhat ſomevvhat it ſhall be."Synonyms: damage, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dereBritishScotlandarchaicdialectalobsoletespecificallytransitive
3. (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.Examples: "The shout was hushed on lake and fell, / The Monk resumed his muttered spell. / Dismal and low its accents came, / The while he scathed the Cross with flame; […]"; "Hoary, yet haughty, frowns the oak, / Its boughs by weight of ages broke; / And towers erect, in sable spire, / The pine-tree scathed by lightning fire; […]"; "Winter and summer / That wood beeth changeless / Starr'd with rich stores; / Shriveleth never / Leaf under loft / Nor lightning it scatheth, […]"Synonyms: burn, forsweal, incinerate, singe, torchBritisharchaicbroadlydialectalliterarypoetictransitive
4. (figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.Examples: "There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul—that penetrate to the vital seat of happiness—and blast it, never again to put forth bud or blossom."; "For the fire-baptised soul, long so scathed and thunder-riven, here feels its own Freedom, which feeling is its Baphometic Baptism: […]"Synonyms: affront, wound, abuse, affront, burn, carry, cut down, disrespectBritisharchaicdialectalfigurativelytransitive
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