verb
- to criticize or attack someone or something severely
Usage: formal
Examples
- The editorial scathes the mayor’s handling of the budget crisis.
- She scathes her opponent’s policies in the debate.
- The review scathes the restaurant’s poor service.
- The professor scathes students who plagiarize their work.
- The critic scathes the film’s weak plot and poor acting.
- He scathes the company’s environmental practices in his report.