Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.
scathe
VERB:
To criticize harshly and devastatingly: blister, drub, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify1, scorch, score, scourge, slap, slash. Informal :roast. Slang :slam. Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to. SeePRAISE.
