simple past tense and past participle of scatter

Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units. / Seemingly randomly distributed. / (meteorology, of clouds) Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.

present participle of scathe

harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic / harmful or painful; acerbic

A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.

(slang, Britain) Scatterbrained; flighty. / (UK, Liverpudlian, slang) messy; filthy; disgusting

(dialect) showery; rainy

Having the qualities of a scatterbrain: absent-minded, forgetful, easily distracted.

(physics) the diffraction phenomenon exhibited by a crystal bombarded with X-rays in such a way that each plane of the crystal lattice acts as a reflector.

present participle and gerund of scatter