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Owen Reynolds
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The answers with the meaning are great, but to be more specific, "never" and "no": scathe isn't considered a word and using it as a serious synonym for injure would be confusing.

Because of unscathed, scathe is vaguely associated with injury. In "I scathed my hand", scathed jumps out -- "you did what? What's a scathe? No wait, I just had lunch. Don't tell me". In a fantasy book we might assume a scathed hand is a magical injury to be explained later.

Also because of unscathed, scathed is a joke word. If you said "2 people were scathed in a car crash", you're making a joke about their injuries (a joke such as: "the driver was unscathed, but the two passengers -- let's just say they were scathed, badly".)

The common phrase scathing insult gives another possible guess. "John is going to scathe you" sounds like made-up teen-age dialogue. He's going to humiliate you, but nothing physical.

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