scathe
/skeɪð
/archaic
verb [with object and usually with negative]
1Harm; injure: he was barely scathed...
- He'd been hit a few times, but for someone of his magnitude, it barely scathed him.
1.1 literary Damage or destroy by fire or lightning: the pine tree scathed by lightning-fire...
- The little wiry bushes that grow all over Yosemite seem to be barely scathed by the flames in places, a tribute to their hardiness.
noun [mass noun]
Harm; injury: it was cheering to hear that you had got through winter and diphtheria without scathe
Derivatives
scatheless
Origin
Middle English: from Old Norse skathi (noun), skatha (verb); related to Dutch and German schaden (verb).
Rhymes
- one per cent
- one-piece
- one-pip
- one-pipe
- one-pipper
- one-place
- one-pointed
- one-pointedness
- one-pole
- one-pot
- one potato, two potato
- one-pounder
- one-pub
- on equal terms
- oner
- one-reeler
- one-ring circus
- onerosity
- onerous
- onerously
- onerousness
- one's all
- one's back is turned
- one's best bib and tucker
- one's best years