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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

scathe
    n 1: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage,
         harm, hurt, scathe]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Scath \Scath\ (sk[a^]th; 277), n. [Icel. ska[eth]i; akin to Dan.
   skade, Sw. skada, AS. scea[eth]a, sca[eth]a, foe, injurer,
   OS. ska[eth]o, D. schade, harm, injury, OHG. scade, G.
   schade, schaden; cf. Gr. 'askhqh`s unharmed. Cf. Scathe,
   v.]
   Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune. [Written also
   scathe.]
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         But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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         Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall,
         Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath.
                                                  --Spenser.
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         Wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
         Let him make treble satisfaction.        --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Scathe \Scathe\ (sk[=a][th]; 277), Scath \Scath\ (sk[a^]th;
   277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scathed (sk[=a][th]d or
   sk[a^]tht); p. pr. & vb. n. Scathing (sk[=a][th]"[i^]ng or
   sk[a^]th"-).] [Icel. ska[eth]a; akin to AS. scea[eth]an,
   sce[eth][eth]an, Dan. skade, Sw. skada, D. & G. schaden, OHG.
   scad[=o]n, Goth. ska[thorn]jan.]
   To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.
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         As when heaven's fire
         Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines.
                                                  --Milton.
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         Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul.
                                                  --W. Irving.
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Thesaurus Results for Scathe:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abuse, afflict, aggrieve, assail, attack, bankruptcy, befoul, bewitch, blight, blister, breakage, breakdown, castigate, collapse, condemn, corrupt, crack-up, crippling, crucify, curse, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disadvantage, disrepair, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, encroachment, envenom, excoriate, flay, fustigate, get into trouble, give the business, harass, harm, hex, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impair, impairment, incapacitation, infect, infringement, injure, injury, inroad, jinx, lash, loss, maiming, maltreat, mayhem, menace, mischief, mistreat, molest, mutilation, outrage, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, roast, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, savage, scarify, scorch, scourge, sickening, skin alive, slash, spoiling, taint, threaten, torment, torture, trounce, violate, weakening, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

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