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scatheless

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scathe

  [skeyth] verb, scathed, scath⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to attack with severe criticism.
2. to hurt, harm, or injure, as by scorching.
–noun
3. hurt, harm, or injury.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME scath(e), scade, schath(e) < ON skathi damage, harm, c. OE sc(e)atha malefactor, injury (with which the ME forms with sch- might be identified); (v.) ME scath(e), skath(e) < ON skatha, c. OE sceathian

Related forms:
scatheless, adjective
scathe⋅less⋅ly, adverb
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Word Origin & History

scathe  (v.)
c.1200, from O.N. skaða "to hurt, injure," from P.Gmc. *skath- (cf. O.E. sceaþian "to hurt, injure," O.Fris. skethia, M.Du. scaden, Du. schaden, O.H.G. scadon, Ger. schaden, Goth. scaþjan "to injure, damage"), from PIE base *sket- "to injure." Only cognate outside Gmc. seems to be in Gk. a-skethes "unharmed, unscathed." 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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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