scathe

1. (archaic or dialect) Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune; waste.

• German: Schaden
• Russian: вред
• Spanish: daño, herida, infortunio

• IPA: /skeɪð/

scathe (scathes, present participle scathing; past scathed, past participle scathed)

1. To injure or harm.
2. To blast; scorch; wither.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     As when heaven's fire / Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines.

   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Broken Heart:

     Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul.

• Italian: ferire
• Russian: причиня́ть вред
• Spanish: herir