SCATHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scathe mean? 

• SCATHE (noun)
  The noun SCATHE has 1 sense:

1. the act of damaging something or someone

  Familiarity information: SCATHE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCATHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of damaging something or someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

damage; harm; hurt; scathe

Hypernyms ("scathe" is a kind of...):

change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scathe"):

impairment (damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality)

defacement; disfiguration; disfigurement; mutilation (the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something)

wound; wounding (the act of inflicting a wound)

burn (damage inflicted by fire)

defloration (an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something)

 Context examples 

It is true also that I did lay my hands upon this jack-fool of a brother Ambrose, though, as you can see, I did him little scathe.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Learn also, I pray you, to shoot with a dropping shaft; for though a bowman may at times be called upon to shoot straight and fast, yet it is more often that he has to do with a town-guard behind a wall, or an arbalestier with his mantlet raised when you cannot hope to do him scathe unless your shaft fall straight upon him from the clouds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)