Synonyms for scathe

Grammar : Verb

Spell : skeyth

Phonetic Transcription : skeɪð

Top 10 synonyms for scathe

attack
blister
damn
lash
pan
scorch
score
scourge
slap
slash

Other synonyms for the word scathe

burn someone's ears
castigate
crawl all over
drub
excoriate
flay
lambaste
lash into
pin someone's ears back
put someone on the griddle
put someone on the hot seat
rake over the coals
read the riot act to
rip into
scarify
shoot down
vilify

Définition of scathe

Origin : c.1200, from Old Norse skaða "to hurt, harm, damage, injure," from Proto-Germanic *skath- (cf. Old English sceaþian "to hurt, injure," Old Saxon skathon, Old Frisian skethia, Middle Dutch scaden, Dutch schaden, Old High German scadon, German schaden, Gothic scaþjan "to injure, damage"), from PIE root *sket- "to injure." Only cognate outside Germanic seems to be in Greek a-skethes "unharmed, unscathed."
It survives mostly in its negative form, unscathed, and in figurative meaning "sear with invective or satire" (1852, usually as scathing) which developed from the sense of "scar, scorch" used by Milton in "Paradise Lost" i.613 (1667).

verb slam

Antonyms for scathe

mend
praise
protect

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