unscathed

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not injured or damaged by a dangerous event

   All four passengers emerged from the crash unscathed.

2. 2
   adj

   not adversely affected by a difficult experience, attack, or criticism

   Few reputations came through the investigation entirely unscathed.

From un- + scathed, the past participle of scathe ("to harm or injure"). Scathe comes through Middle English from Old Norse skatha. The positive form scathed is now uncommon, while unscathed survives especially in the phrase come through unscathed.

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