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Injury vs Scatheless - What's the difference?

injury | scatheless |

As a noun injury

is damage to the body of a human or animal.

As a verb injury

is (obsolete) to wrong, to injure.

As an adjective scatheless is

without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.

injury

English

(wikipedia injury)

Alternative forms

* enjury

Noun

(injuries)
  • damage to the body of a human or animal
    • The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
  • violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests
    • Slander is an injury to the character.
  • (archaic) injustice

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * injure * injurious

    See also

    * harm * hurt * damage * loss * mischief * impairment * detriment * wrong * evil * injustice

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
  • *, II.12:
    • The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

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    scatheless

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Francesco Saverio Nitti, title=Peaceless Europe, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=With the exception, perhaps, of Great Britain, whose privileged insular situation, enormous mercantile navy and flourishing trade in coal have enabled her to resume her pre-war economic existence almost entirely, no country has emerged scatheless from the War. The rates of exchange soar daily to fantastic heights, and insuperable barriers to the commerce of European nations are being created. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1915, author=Irvin S. Cobb, title=Paths of Glory, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The houses round about have fared better, in the main, than the mill, though none of them has come scatheless out of the fight. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1884, author=H. Rider Haggard, title=Dawn, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He felt like a man who has just come scatheless through some horrible crisis, and once more knows the sweet sensation of safety. }}