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v. To harm or injure, especially by fire.

v. To criticize or denounce severely; excoriate.

n. Harm or injury.

n. Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune.

v. To injure.

v. To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.

To injure; harm; hurt.

n. Harm; injury; damage; mischief.

n. Disadvantage; a matter of regret; a pity.

n. the act of damaging something or someone

"'scathing satire' (does satire ever 'scathe'?) or Fielding's rough horseplay."

scath   

scathed    scathes    scathing   

change of integrity   

defacement    defloration    wounding    disfigurement    disfiguration    burn    wound    impairment   

indent    office-seeking    contemn    suf-    death    alas!    eyepatch    branding iron    green-gray    sail-like