"scathe" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /skeɪð/, /skeɪθ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-scathe.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scathe2.wav Forms: scathes [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪð, -eɪθ Etymology: From Middle English scath, scathe [and other forms], from Old Norse skaði (“damage, harm; loss; death; murder”), from Proto-Germanic *skaþô (“damage, scathe; one who causes damage, injurer”, noun) (whence Old English sċeaþa, sċeaþu (“scathe, harm, injury”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₁t- (“damage, harm”). cognates * Scots skaith * Dutch schade * German schaden * Norwegian skade * Swedish skada * Icelandic skaði * Polish szkoda * Russian шко́да (škóda) * Belarusian шко́дa (škóda) * Ukrainian шко́да (škóda) Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)keh₁t-}}, {{inh|en|enm|scath}} Middle English scath, {{nb...|scade, scate, schath, schathe, schatht, sckathe, skade, skaith, skaithe, skagh, skate, skath, skathe, (Northern England, Northwest Midlands, Scotland) scaith, scaithe, schaithe, schath, schathe, skaith, skaithe, skaitht, (in names) scait, skeithe|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{der|en|non|skaði|t=damage, harm; loss; death; murder}} Old Norse skaði (“damage, harm; loss; death; murder”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*skaþô|pos=noun|t=damage, scathe; one who causes damage, injurer}} Proto-Germanic *skaþô (“damage, scathe; one who causes damage, injurer”, noun), {{cog|ang|sċeaþa}} Old English sċeaþa, {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)keh₁t-|t=damage, harm}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₁t- (“damage, harm”), {{cog|sco|skaith}} Scots skaith, {{cog|nl|schade}} Dutch schade, {{cog|de|schaden}} German schaden, {{cog|no|skade}} Norwegian skade, {{cog|sv|skada}} Swedish skada, {{cog|is|skaði}} Icelandic skaði, {{cog|pl|szkoda}} Polish szkoda, {{cog|ru|шко́да}} Russian шко́да (škóda), {{cog|be|шко́дa}} Belarusian шко́дa (škóda), {{cog|uk|шко́да}} Ukrainian шко́да (škóda) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} scathe (countable and uncountable, plural scathes), {{term-label|en|archaic|or|Britain|dialectal}} (archaic or British, dialectal)
  1. (countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury. Tags: British, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable Translations (damage; harm; hurt; injury): dany [masculine] (Catalan), estrall [masculine] (Catalan), mal [masculine] (Catalan), skade (Danish), schade [masculine] (Dutch), Schaden [masculine] (German), damnum [neuter] (Latin), ക്ഷതം (kṣataṁ) (Malayalam), szkoda [feminine] (Polish), uszczerbek [masculine] (Polish), вред (vred) [masculine] (Russian), уще́рб (uščérb) [masculine] (Russian), daño [masculine] (Spanish), herida [feminine] (Spanish), infortunio [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-scathe-en-noun-ae56nZQS Categories (other): Terms with German translations, Terms with Latin translations Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 16 27 25 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 15 28 23 34 Disambiguation of 'damage; harm; hurt; injury': 64 15 20 0
  2. (countable) Someone who, or something which, causes harm; an injurer. Tags: British, archaic, countable, dialectal Synonyms: harmer [rare]
    Sense id: en-scathe-en-noun-CNvhDJA7 Categories (other): Terms with German translations, Terms with Latin translations Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 16 27 25 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 15 28 23 34
  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. Tags: British, archaic, countable, dialectal, obsolete Categories (topical): Scots law
    Sense id: en-scathe-en-noun-wNnEVnR5 Categories (other): British English, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of British English: 20 24 34 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 12 26 36 26 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 16 27 25 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 15 28 23 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 21 22 35 22
  4. (uncountable) Something to be mourned or regretted. Tags: British, archaic, dialectal, uncountable
    Sense id: en-scathe-en-noun-rWmXVRYT Categories (other): Terms with German translations, Terms with Latin translations Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 16 27 25 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 15 28 23 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: scath [Britain, dialectal, obsolete], skaith, scaith [Scotland] Derived forms: ill-scathe, scathefire [obsolete], scatheful [archaic], scathefulness, scatheless, scathelessly, scathely [Britain, Scotland, dialectal] Related terms: scaddle [Britain, dialectal, obsolete]
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /skeɪð/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-scathe.wav Forms: scathes [present, singular, third-person], scathing [participle, present], scathed [participle, past], scathed [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], scathe [infinitive]
Rhymes: -eɪð Etymology: From Middle English scathen, skathen (“to harm; to cause loss; to assail, attack; to make war on; to defeat”) [and other forms], from Old Norse skaða (“to damage, harm; to hurt, injure”), from Proto-Germanic *skaþōną (“to damage, harm; to injure”) (whence Old English sceaþian, scaþan (“to harm, hurt, injure, scathe”)), from *skaþô (“damage, scathe; one who causes damage, injurer”, noun); see further at etymology 1. Sense 2 (“to harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source”) appears to derive from Paradise Lost by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674), perhaps influenced by scorch: see the 1667 quotation. cognates * Albanian shkathët (“adept, clever, skilful”) * Danish skade (“to hurt, injure”) * Dutch schaden (“to injure”) * Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (skaþjan, “to harm, injure; to do wrong”) * Ancient Greek ἀσκηθής (askēthḗs, “unhurt”) * Old Frisian skathia (“to injure”) * Old High German skadôn (Middle High German schaden, German schaden (“to damage, harm, hurt; to be harmful”)) * Old Norse skeðja (“to hurt”) * Old Saxon scaðon (“to slander”) * Swedish skada (“to hurt, injure”) Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scathen}} Middle English scathen, {{nb...|scaith, scaithe, scath, scathe, sckathe, skaithe, skathe; (chiefly Scotland) skayth, skaythe|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{der|en|non|skaða|t=to damage, harm; to hurt, injure}} Old Norse skaða (“to damage, harm; to hurt, injure”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*skaþōną|t=to damage, harm; to injure}} Proto-Germanic *skaþōną (“to damage, harm; to injure”), {{cog|ang|sceaþian}} Old English sceaþian, {{cog|sq|shkathët|t=adept, clever, skilful}} Albanian shkathët (“adept, clever, skilful”), {{cog|da|skade|t=to hurt, injure}} Danish skade (“to hurt, injure”), {{cog|nl|schaden|t=to injure}} Dutch schaden (“to injure”), {{cog|got|𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽|t=to harm, injure; to do wrong}} Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (skaþjan, “to harm, injure; to do wrong”), {{cog|grc|ἀσκηθής|t=unhurt}} Ancient Greek ἀσκηθής (askēthḗs, “unhurt”), {{cog|ofs|skathia|t=to injure}} Old Frisian skathia (“to injure”), {{cog|goh|skadôn}} Old High German skadôn, {{cog|gmh|schaden}} Middle High German schaden, {{cog|de|schaden|t=to damage, harm, hurt; to be harmful}} German schaden (“to damage, harm, hurt; to be harmful”), {{cog|non|skeðja|t=to hurt}} Old Norse skeðja (“to hurt”), {{cog|osx|scaðon|t=to slander}} Old Saxon scaðon (“to slander”), {{cog|sv|skada|t=to hurt, injure}} Swedish skada (“to hurt, injure”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} scathe (third-person singular simple present scathes, present participle scathing, simple past and past participle scathed), {{term-label|en|transitive}} (transitive) Inflection templates: {{en-conj|old=1|stem=scath}}
  1. (archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically. Tags: British, Scotland, archaic, dialectal, transitive Synonyms: damage, wound, harm
    Sense id: en-scathe-en-verb-MTXbdp56 Categories (other): Scottish English
  2. (archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.
    (specifically, obsolete) To cause monetary loss to (someone).
    Tags: British, Scotland, archaic, dialectal, obsolete, specifically, transitive Synonyms: damage, wound, harm
    Sense id: en-scathe-en-verb-7D5e34Lu Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Malayalam translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 10 12 14 13 30 4 14 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 6 6 8 16 41 3 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 4 9 9 13 13 37 3 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 10 9 14 13 35 2 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 2 6 9 7 13 46 2 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 6 8 7 10 12 38 5 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 4 9 12 8 11 36 4 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 4 8 7 10 12 42 3 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Malayalam translations: 4 8 7 10 12 42 3 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 4 11 13 8 10 36 3 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 3 11 12 8 11 35 3 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 4 7 6 9 13 43 3 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 4 8 7 10 13 41 3 14
  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. Tags: British, archaic, broadly, dialectal, literary, poetic, transitive Synonyms: burn, forsweal, incinerate, singe, torch
    Sense id: en-scathe-en-verb-uCYCS6M1
  4. (figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc. Tags: British, archaic, dialectal, figuratively, transitive Synonyms: affront, wound, offend
    Sense id: en-scathe-en-verb-bfTUauvW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: scathed [adjective], scathing [adjective, noun], unscathed Translations (to harm or injure (someone or something) physically): skade (Danish), schaden (Dutch), vahingoittaa (Finnish), ferire (Italian), ക്ഷതപ്പെടുത്തുക (kṣatappeṭuttuka) (Malayalam), شخودن (šexudan) (Persian), ferir (Portuguese), причиня́ть вред (pričinjátʹ vred) (Russian), herir (Spanish)
Etymology number: 2 Disambiguation of 'to harm or injure (someone or something) physically': 42 42 15 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1606?, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “Ode 7”, in Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall. […], London: […] R. B[radock] for N[icholas] L[ing] and I[ohn] Flasket, →OCLC; republished in Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 4), [Manchester: […] Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1891, →OCLC, page 22:",
          "text": "[S]trong ale and noble cheere / t'aſſwage breeme winters ſcathes.",
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          "text": "I red ye weel, tak care o' ſkaith, / See there's a gully!",
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          "ref": "1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Friedrich Reduced to Straits; Cannot Maintain His Moldau Conquests against Prince Karl”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, page 60:",
          "text": "Let us take the scathe and the scorn candidly home to us;—and try to prepare for doing better.",
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          "ref": "1870, “The Latter End of All the Kin of the Giukings”, in Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, transl., Völsunga Saga. The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs: With Certain Songs from the Elder Edda. […], London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 161:",
          "text": "Now telleth the tale concerning the sons of Gudrun, that she had arrayed their war-raiment in such wise, that no steel would bite thereon; and she bade them play not with stones or other heavy matters, for that it would be to their scathe if they did so.",
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          "ref": "1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “[Poems.] The Burden of Nineveh.”, in Poems, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, pages 21–22:",
          "text": "'Twas bull, 'twas mitred Minotaur, / A dead disbowelled mystery; / The mummy of a buried faith / Stark from the charnel without scathe, / Its wings stood for the light to bathe,— […]",
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          "word": "skade"
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          "code": "la",
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          "word": "damnum"
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          "word": "ക്ഷതം"
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          "sense": "damage; harm; hurt; injury",
          "tags": [
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          "roman": "vred",
          "sense": "damage; harm; hurt; injury",
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          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:",
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          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 612–615:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "[1786, Robert Burns, “Epistle to J. R******, Enclosing Some Poems”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume I, Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] James M‘Kie, 1867, →OCLC, page 219:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 192:",
          "text": "[T]wice Matilda came between / The carabine and Redmond's breast, / Just ere the spring his finger pressed. / […] / \"It ne'er,\" he muttered, \"shall be said, / That thus I scathed thee, haughty maid!\"",
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          "ref": "1815, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 137:",
          "text": "Seek not the giddy crag to climb, / To view the turret scathed by time; / It is a task of doubt and fear / To aught but goat or mountain-deer.",
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          "ref": "1865, “Leech Book. Book II.”, in Oswald Cockayne, editor, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part Never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest. […] (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages; 35), volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, →OCLC, page 163:",
          "text": "Leechdoms regarding […] how the congressus sexuum is not holesome for a dry body, and how it scatheth not a hot nor a wet one: […]",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "(archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.",
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          "ref": "1810, Walter Scott, “Canto III. The Gathering.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza X, page 109:",
          "text": "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; […]",
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          "ref": "1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza III, page 156:",
          "text": "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; […]",
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          "ref": "1844, George Stephens, transl., The King of Birds; or, The Lay of the Phœnix; an Anglo-Saxon Song of the Tenth or Eleventh Century. […], London: […] J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, […], →OCLC, page 9:",
          "text": "Winter and summer / That wood beeth changeless / Starr'd with rich stores; / Shriveleth never / Leaf under loft / Nor lightning it scatheth, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1853, Mary Benn, “[Part the First]”, in The Solitary; or A Lay from the West; with Other Poems, […], London: Joseph Masters, […]; Dublin: James McGlashan, […], →OCLC, 1st part, stanza 127, page 49:",
          "text": "[The sun] with vertical and torrid rays / Scathest the middle zone, and equallest the days.",
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          "ref": "1855, James Avis Bartley, “The Spirit of Poesy”, in Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems, Richmond, Va.: J. W. Randolph, →OCLC, page 141:",
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          "text": "For the fire-baptised soul, long so scathed and thunder-riven, here feels its own Freedom, which feeling is its Baphometic Baptism: […]",
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        {
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          "ref": "[1787, Robert Burns, “Death and Doctor Hornbook, a True Story”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, page 56:",
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          "text": "Now telleth the tale concerning the sons of Gudrun, that she had arrayed their war-raiment in such wise, that no steel would bite thereon; and she bade them play not with stones or other heavy matters, for that it would be to their scathe if they did so.",
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      "word": "ക്ഷതം"
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          "ref": "c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:",
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          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 612–615:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "[1786, Robert Burns, “Epistle to J. R******, Enclosing Some Poems”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume I, Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] James M‘Kie, 1867, →OCLC, page 219:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 192:",
          "text": "[T]wice Matilda came between / The carabine and Redmond's breast, / Just ere the spring his finger pressed. / […] / \"It ne'er,\" he muttered, \"shall be said, / That thus I scathed thee, haughty maid!\"",
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          "ref": "1815, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 137:",
          "text": "Seek not the giddy crag to climb, / To view the turret scathed by time; / It is a task of doubt and fear / To aught but goat or mountain-deer.",
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          "ref": "1865, “Leech Book. Book II.”, in Oswald Cockayne, editor, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part Never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest. […] (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages; 35), volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, →OCLC, page 163:",
          "text": "Leechdoms regarding […] how the congressus sexuum is not holesome for a dry body, and how it scatheth not a hot nor a wet one: […]",
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          "ref": "1602, [Thomas Heywood], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, wherein is Shewed How a Man may Chuse a Good Wife from a Bad. […], London: […] [Thomas Creede] for Mathew Lawe, […], →OCLC; reprinted as How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad (Old English Drama Students Facsimile; 50), [London: s.n.], 1912, →OCLC, signature C, recto:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1810, Walter Scott, “Canto III. The Gathering.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza X, page 109:",
          "text": "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; […]",
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          "text": "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; […]",
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          "ref": "1844, George Stephens, transl., The King of Birds; or, The Lay of the Phœnix; an Anglo-Saxon Song of the Tenth or Eleventh Century. […], London: […] J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, […], →OCLC, page 9:",
          "text": "Winter and summer / That wood beeth changeless / Starr'd with rich stores; / Shriveleth never / Leaf under loft / Nor lightning it scatheth, […]",
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          "ref": "1853, Mary Benn, “[Part the First]”, in The Solitary; or A Lay from the West; with Other Poems, […], London: Joseph Masters, […]; Dublin: James McGlashan, […], →OCLC, 1st part, stanza 127, page 49:",
          "text": "[The sun] with vertical and torrid rays / Scathest the middle zone, and equallest the days.",
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          "ref": "1855, James Avis Bartley, “The Spirit of Poesy”, in Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems, Richmond, Va.: J. W. Randolph, →OCLC, page 141:",
          "text": "'Tis the wild stream of hell! oh it burneth the soul, / It scatheth, and blighteth, and killeth the whole; […]",
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          "ref": "1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Broken Heart”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 149:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Centre of Indifference”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 117:",
          "text": "For the fire-baptised soul, long so scathed and thunder-riven, here feels its own Freedom, which feeling is its Baphometic Baptism: […]",
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        [
          "acts",
          "act#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "words",
          "word#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "spoken",
          "speak#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "affront"
        },
        {
          "word": "wound"
        },
        {
          "word": "offend"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal",
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/skeɪð/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-scathe.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-scathe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-scathe.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-scathe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-scathe.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪð"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "skade"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "schaden"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "vahingoittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "ferire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "kṣatappeṭuttuka",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "ക്ഷതപ്പെടുത്തുക"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "šexudan",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "شخودن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "ferir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pričinjátʹ vred",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "причиня́ть вред"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to harm or injure (someone or something) physically",
      "word": "herir"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "John Milton",
    "Paradise Lost"
  ],
  "word": "scathe"
}

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