Timeline for How often do native speakers use the word "to scathe"? Is it OK if I use it instead of "to injure"?
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| Aug 16, 2020 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1294831339523448832 | ||
| Aug 11, 2020 at 11:48 | comment | added | IMSoP | @fomin Again, feel free to add an answer, and I will upvote it if it's well-written. Comments are for clarifying the question, not for answering it a few words at a time. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 11:34 | comment | added | Simd | @IMSoP google.co.uk/… has a lot from different books. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 9:59 | comment | added | IMSoP | @fomin If you can find a reference or two for that, feel free to add as an answer. That's not a phrase I'd ever use, but that doesn't mean it's not common in some varieties of English (there isn't really one "standard modern English", so your experience is no less valid than mine). | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 9:57 | comment | added | IMSoP | @Flydog57 That's the kind of thing that should really be an answer not a comment. It's also exactly what my answer already says. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 4:58 | comment | added | Simd | “Barely scathed him” is in standard modern English. So its use is not purely adjectival. | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 20:37 | comment | added | Flydog57 | It's best to think of "unscathed" and "scathing" as if they were adjectives, not derived from a verb "to scathe". I think of "unscathed" like "disgruntled" - you can't really be "gruntled" | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 13:03 | answer | added | uhoh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 9:42 | comment | added | Fattie | The simple answer is it is unused as "scathe". | |
| Aug 9, 2020 at 15:43 | answer | added | Owen Reynolds | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 12:16 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 8, 2020 at 9:38 | answer | added | IMSoP | timeline score: 73 | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 7:26 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 5:12 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | It's more common as the adjective "scathing", in this sense from American Heritage Dictionary: 1. Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical: "a scathing tract on the uselessness of war" | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 4:41 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 8, 2020 at 4:12 | history | asked | Choro | CC BY-SA 4.0 |