Synonyms for scathe
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Damage — to harm or injure (someone or something) physically
damage, harm, injure, hurt, injury, do ill, abuse, destroy, wound, mischief, prejudice, disadvantage, detriment, cripple, maul, mayhem dated, dere dated UK
2. Torch — to harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source; to blast…
torch, singe, incinerate, forsweal dated
3. Affront — to severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc
Noun
harmer rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.
- v. 2
To harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source; to blast; to scorch; to wither.
- v. 3
To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.
Related words
- Word family
- scatheful scatheless scathely scathy scathing
Example sentences
- hurt I don't want to hurt Tom, but I will if I have to.
- damage The explosion did a lot of damage to the building.
- harm This kind of magazine can do harm to young people.
- injure You have to be careful so as not to injure yourself.
By length
- 4 letters
- born1, hurt1, harm1, maul1, dere
- 5 letters
- abuse2, wound1, torch1, singe1
- 6 letters
- damage2, injury3, mayhem2, injure2, harmer2
- 7 letters
- destroy2, cripple2, affront2
- 8 letters
- mischief2, forsweal
- 9 letters
- prejudice3, detriment3
- 10 letters
- incinerate4
- 12 letters
- disadvantage4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abuse2 = 2 syllables).