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SCATH

Definitions: SCATH

SCATH

Transitive verb

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

Verb

1. Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCATH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms within Context: SCATH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deterioration

Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage.

Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SCATH

English words defined with "SCATH": Scathed. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SCATH

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SCATH

Language Translations for "SCATH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

critiquer de façon cinglante. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

athscay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SCATH

Derivations

Words beginning with "SCATH": scathe, scathed, scatheless, scathes, scathing, scathingly. (additional references)

Words containing "SCATH": unscathed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SCATH

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: chats, tachs.

Words within the letters "a-c-h-s-t"

-1 letter: acts, cash, cast, cats, chat, hast, hats, scat, shat, tach.

-2 letters: act, ash, cat, has, hat, sac, sat, sha, tas.

-3 letters: ah, as, at, ha, sh, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-s-t"
 

+1 letter: chants, charts, chaste, cheats, cushat, sachet, scathe, slatch, snatch, stanch, starch, swatch, taches, thacks, yachts.

 

+2 letters: achiest, aitches, batches, cachets, cahoots, canthus, catches, catfish, cattish, chalets, chasten, chaster, chaunts, chetahs, chitals, cushats, datchas, escheat, hatches, hepcats, isotach, klatsch, latches, matches, patches, rachets, ratches, sachets, satchel, scathed, scathes, scratch, snatchy, spathic, starchy, staunch, stomach, tachism, tachist, teaches, thwacks, watches, wauchts.

 

+3 letters: acanthus, achiotes, actorish, alcahest, archaist, asthenic, attaches, batchers, brachets, calathos, calathus, camshaft, catarrhs, catchers, catchups, catechus, catheads, cathects, cathexes, cathexis, cathodes, cathouse, chanters, chanteys, chanties, chantors, chapatis, chaplets, chapters, chariest, chariots, charters, chartist, chastely, chastens, chastest, chastise, chastity, chateaus, chattels, chatters, chayotes, cheapest, cheaters, cheetahs, chelates, chiastic, chiliast, chitosan, cholates, chutzpas, citharas, claughts, cohabits, cratches, despatch, detaches, dispatch, enchants, eschalot, escheats, etchants, ethicals, futharcs, gauchest, hackbuts, haircuts, haricots, hatchels, hatchers, hatchets, hatracks, haystack, hectares, hellcats, hematics, hepatics, hotcakes, isotachs, jacinths, klatches, latchets, machetes, manchets, mastiche, matchers, matchups, mismatch, mispatch, misteach, moschate, mustache, nautches, pastiche, patchers, pistache, pushcart, rachitis, ratchets, recharts, recheats, sacheted, satchels, scathing, schemata, schmaltz, scratchy, scyphate, seecatch, slatches, snatched, snatcher, snatches, soutache, stanched, stancher, stanches, stanchly, starched, starches, stomachs, stomachy, swatches, tachisme, tachisms, tachiste, tachists, tachyons, teachers, thatches, theriacs, thoraces, tracheas, trachles, tranches, trochars, unchaste, watchers, yachters.

 

+4 letters: achromats, acroliths, aesthetic, ahistoric, alcahests, alchemist, anarchist, anchorets, anthraces, antishock, apotheces, archaists, archivist, asphaltic, asthenics, asthmatic, atheistic, athletics, attachers, bacchants, backchats, beachiest, cachalots, cachepots, cacoethes, cadetship, calthrops, camshafts, cantharis, catchalls, catchiest, catechins, catechism, catechist, catechols, catfights, catfishes, catharses, catharsis, cathedras, cathepsin, catheters, catholics, cathouses, ceanothus, cenotaphs, chaffiest, chalkiest, chanciest, chantages, chanteuse, chantries, chapaties, chapattis, chapiters, chappatis, chaquetas, charities, charriest, chartists, chassepot, chastened, chastener, chastised, chastiser, chastises, chatchkas, chatchkes, chattiest, chaunters, chelators, chevalets, chiasmata, chigetais, chiliasts, chitchats, chitosans, chlorates, chordates, chromates, chutzpahs, coauthors, cohobates, crapshoot, deathcups, detachers, eschalots, escheated, ethicians, ethnarchs, hackliest, haematics, handcarts, hardtacks, hatchings, hatchways, haystacks, headstock, heartsick, hecatombs, hepaticas, heptarchs, hesitance, hesitancy, hoactzins, holocaust, housecoat, hyacinths, hypocaust, jacinthes, katchinas, klatsches, latchkeys, leachates, leachiest, machinist, macintosh, mahlstick, masochist, mastiches, matchless, mechanist, merchants, moustache, mustached, mustaches, mustachio, nightcaps, orchestra, outcharms, outcheats, pastiches, patchiest, peachiest, penchants, pentarchs, pistaches, pistachio, planchets, poachiest, postcrash, potlaches, pushcarts, rematches, repatches, reteaches, rockshaft, roughcast, sackcloth, sailcloth, sasquatch, schematic, schmaltzy, scholiast, scratched, scratcher, scratches, shortcake, shtetlach, snatchers, snatchier, snatching, sociopath, soutaches, stanchers, stanchest, stanching, stanchion, starchier, starchily, starching, staunched, stauncher, staunches, staunchly, stomached, stomacher, stomachic, stonechat, stopwatch, succotash, switchman, sycophant, tachinids, tachismes, tachistes, teachings, tetrarchs, thalassic, thatchers, theatrics, thematics, theocrats, theriacas, thinclads, thwackers, tracheids, trachomas, trachytes, trauchles, tribrachs, trichinas, trochaics, trochleas, tuckahoes, unlatches, unscathed, unteaches, washcloth, watchcase, watchdogs, watcheyes, watchouts, whackiest, whinchats, whitecaps, whitracks, woodchats, yachtings, yachtsman, yachtsmen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SCATH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 41 54 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-    -    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01000001 01010100 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#65 &#84 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0041 0054 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5337355442

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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