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UNSCATHED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unscathed mean?
• UNSCATHED (adjective)
The adjective UNSCATHED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNSCATHED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not injured or harmed
Synonyms:
unharmed; unhurt; unscathed; whole
Similar:
uninjured (not injured physically or mentally)
Context examples
White Fang darted in and out unscathed, while Cherokee's wounds increased.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Unscathed they fought their way to the door of the keep, and faced round upon the swarming mob, while the squire thrust the great key into the lock.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you face a domineering person, you seem to have ideas of how best to deal with the situation and emerge unscathed.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He did not give the complacent wraith any name, but he took her for his heroine and grew quite fond of her, as well he might, for he gifted her with every gift and grace under the sun, and escorted her, unscathed, through trials which would have annihilated any mortal woman.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In the main, so efficient a fighter had he become, he went his way unscathed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Had the porcupine been entirely unrolled, or had it not discovered its enemy a fraction of a second before the blow was struck, the paw would have escaped unscathed; but a side-flick of the tail sank sharp quills into it as it was withdrawn.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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