scathe
Noun
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Noun
scathe
Translations- German: Schaden
- Russian: вред
- Spanish: daño, herida, infortunio
- IPA: /skeɪð/
scathe (scathes, present participle scathing; past scathed, past participle scathed)
- To injure or harm.
- 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.
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