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Meanings of scathe in English

Portuguese
deterioração
Catalan
dany
Spanish
daño

The act of damaging something or someone.

        deterioração
        Usage of scathe in English
        1
        Ye were to profit by me, now I shall bring you scathe.
        The Nibelungenlied
        2
        Go and tell thy beads, child; thou hast done much scathe unwittingly!
        Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the W...
        3
        Bold Irnfried ran at the gleeman, and came in scathe by his hand.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
        4
        I had been imprisoned and escaped; I had been shot at, without scathe.
        Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
        5
        You are a scathe and a blight; a pestilential ogre, drunk with self-worship.
        Destiny
        6
        But in my wisdom shall be no longer any scathe to any man.
        The Wood Beyond the World
        7
        He wist that it would bring him scathe and monstrous woe.
        The Nibelungenlied
        8
        Gladly would they have parted the fray, or ever greater scathe was done.
        The Nibelungenlied
        9
        Then first waxed Hagen wroth, when he saw the monstrous scathe.
        The Nibelungenlied
        10
        Well he knew he could win naught but teen and scathe.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
        11
        Doubt not that thy foemen shall suffer scathe at my hand.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
        12
        But he was without scathe or scar, as he afterwards found.
        J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
        13
        He did Etzel's men such scathe, that they durst not draw against him.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
        14
        The Burgundian knights did honourably therein, but King Gunther suffered scathe for it after.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
        15
        At the bottom of all the scathe in the Castle!
        Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the W...
        16
        Weep not, mother, for my sake, for I shall be without scathe among foemen.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
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