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Narrator: Today's word is "unscathed" — an adjective, pronounced /ʌnˈskeɪðd/, with stress on the second syllable.
Narrator: Unscathed means without any injury, harm, or damage — coming through something completely unharmed.
Narrator: In plain English, if you're unscathed, you've come out of trouble without a scratch on you.
Narrator: It works for people, vehicles, and reputations alike — all emerging safe and sound.
Narrator: It's built from "un", meaning not, and "scathed", from the old verb "scathe", to injure or harm.
Narrator: "Scathe" comes from an Old Norse word meaning to hurt; today it survives mostly in "unscathed".
Narrator: So while "scathe" has faded, "unscathed" stays strong — the picture of escaping harm entirely.
Narrator: In tone it's everyday and slightly dramatic, common in stories of accidents, risks, and near misses.
Narrator: So remember: unscathed means completely unharmed — coming through it all without a single scratch.
Speaker A: It was a nasty crash, but somehow they walked away unscathed.
Speaker B: Incredible. Unscathed — not a scratch after something so serious.
Speaker A: Exactly. "He escaped unscathed" means he came through unhurt.
Speaker B: Right. And it's not only physical — "her reputation survived unscathed".
Speaker A: Yes, meaning no damage done at all.
Speaker B: A common mistake is the spelling — that silent ish ending, "unscathed".
Speaker A: Good catch. The "th" sound is soft, and the "e" is silent.
Speaker B: Close synonyms? "Unharmed" and "unhurt" are close.
Speaker A: And "intact" when nothing's been broken or lost.
Speaker B: So the building came through the storm unscathed.
Speaker A: Not a tile out of place.
Speaker B: Wonderfully unscathed.
Speaker B: Let's use "unscathed" in prompts to mean surviving failures, errors, and crashes safely.
Speaker A: So "unscathed" tells the AI to protect against damage?
Speaker B: Exactly. For error handling, you'd write:
Prompt: Add error handling so my app stays unscathed when an API fails. Catch each failure gracefully, so the user's data comes through unscathed and the page never crashes.
Speaker B: The word "unscathed" tells the model resilience is the goal, not just catching errors.
Speaker A: Reassuring. What about data?
Speaker B: Try this:
Prompt: Make my save logic keep records unscathed if the connection drops. Queue changes safely, so the data survives unscathed and syncs the moment the network returns.
Speaker A: So nothing's lost.
Speaker B: Right. For migrations:
Prompt: Write a database migration that leaves existing data unscathed. Add the new column without touching old rows, so every record comes through the change completely unscathed.
Speaker A: Safe upgrade. What about backups?
Speaker B: Here you go:
Prompt: Set up backups so my data stays unscathed even if the server fails. Store a recent copy safely, so a crash leaves the data unscathed and easy to restore.
Speaker A: Could it test resilience?
Speaker B: Yes:
Prompt: Write tests that crash my app on purpose and check it recovers unscathed. Confirm the data stays unscathed after each failure, so I trust it under real-world stress.
Speaker A: So "unscathed" means safe through failure.
Speaker B: Exactly — a strong word for resilience and data safety.
Unscathed — meaning in Arabic & definition More U courses GL Dictionary