Usually means: Harm or damage severely inflicted.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. scathe: Merriam-Webster
  2. scathe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scathe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scathe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scathe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scathe, scathe: Wordnik
  7. scathe: Wiktionary
  8. scathe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. scathe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. scathe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. scathe: Dictionary.com
  12. scathe (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Scathe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. scathe: Rhymezone
  15. Scathe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. scathe: FreeDictionary.org
  17. scathe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. scathe: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scathe: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scathe: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scathe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scathe)

noun:  (countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.
noun:  (countable) Someone who, or something which, causes harm; an injurer.
noun:  (countable, Scots law, obsolete) An injury or loss for which compensation is sought in a lawsuit; damage; also, expenses incurred by a claimant; costs.
noun:  (uncountable) Something to be mourned or regretted.
verb:  (archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.
verb:  (specifically, obsolete) To cause monetary loss to (someone).
verb:  (by extension, chiefly literary and poetic) To harm, injure, or destroy (someone or something) by fire, lightning, or some other heat source; to blast; to scorch; to wither.
verb:  (figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.

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