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Scathing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical: "a scathing tract on the uselessness of war” ( Pierre Brodin).

adj. Harmful or painful; injurious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. harshly or bitterly critical

adj. harmful or painful; acerbic

v. Present participle of scathe.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Damaging; wounding; blasting; scorching: as, scathing irony.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism

Word Usage

"ZAHN: Finally tonight, a lot of questions raised in this NASA report, what some describe as a scathing report on the leadership at NASA and a lot of debate about whether you can ever convince the American public it's worth exploring Mars."

Equivalent

scath

Verb Form

scathed scathes scathing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change of integrity

Hyponym

defacement defloration wounding disfigurement disfiguration burn wound impairment

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