English Dictionary

scathe

/skeɪð/

verb

(archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically. / (specifically, obsolete) To cause monetary loss to (someone).

The fire scathed the entire forest.

意味（1）

(archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.

意味（2）

(specifically, obsolete) To cause monetary loss to (someone).

VVell goe too vvild oates, ſpend thrift, prodigall, / Ile croſſe thy name quite from my reckoning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall skathe thee ſomevvhat, / I vvill not ſay vvhat ſomevvhat it ſhall be.

意味（3）

(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.

The shout was hushed on lake and fell, / The Monk resumed his muttered spell. / Dismal and low its accents came, / The while he scathed the Cross with flame; […]

意味（4）

(figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.

There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul—that penetrate to the vital seat of happiness—and blast it, never again to put forth bud or blossom.