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   scathe

   /skeɪð/

   verb

   • 1. harm; injure: "he was barely scathed"
   • ▪ damage or destroy by fire or lightning: "the pine tree scathed by lightning-fire"

   noun

   • 1. harm; injury: "it was cheering to hear that you had got through winter and diphtheria without scathe"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Norse skathi (noun), skatha (verb); related to Dutch and German schaden (verb).

   Derivatives

   • 1. scatheless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • S

     1

   • C

     3

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • H

     4

   • E

     1

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