the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An erroneous spelling of scathe.
Word Usage
"The largest such site, Rate MyProfessors. com, currently has 207,000 evaluations of teachers at 4,000 colleges in the United States, including several scath-ing reviews of one apparently soporific professor at the University of Delaware."