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

English

Etymology

Old English sceaþian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪð

Verb

1. injure

Translations

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