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Swathing vs Scathing - What's the difference?

swathing | scathing |

As verbs the difference between swathing and scathing

is that swathing is while scathing is .

As a noun swathing

is a wrapping.

As an adjective scathing is

harshly or bitterly critical.

swathing

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wrapping.

    • scathing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • harshly or bitterly critical
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.}}
  • harmful or painful; acerbic

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