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Chide vs Scathe - What's the difference?

chide | scathe |

As verbs the difference between chide and scathe

is that chide is to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily while scathe is (archaic) to injure.

As a noun scathe is

harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune.

chide

English

Verb

  • To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
    • 1591' ''And yet I was last '''chidden for being too slow.'' — Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona , .
    1598' ''If the scorn of your bright eyne / Have power to raise such love in mine, / Alack, in me what strange effect / Would they work in mild aspect? / Whiles you '''chid me, I did love'' — Shakespeare, ''As You Like It , .
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  • (obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
    • 1611' ''And Jacob was wroth, and '''chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.
  • (ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
  • * Shakespeare
    • As doth a rock against the chiding flood.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the sea that chides the banks of England

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs

    scathe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (dialectal or obsolete) * (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "scathe")

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (archaic) To injure.
  • * Milton
    • As when heaven's fire / Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul.

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    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)