as in unharmed
not hurt, harmed, or damaged
She escaped from the wreckage unscathed. The administration was left relatively unscathed by the scandal.
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Recent Examples of unscathed
The Patriots allowed a pressure rate north of 40% last week, but largely escaped unscathed in Buffalo.
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Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
No one was ever arrested for the crime that somehow left everyone else in the car, including another son of Bobbitt’s, physically unscathed.
—Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
The Yankees threatened with runners in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings, but the Blue Jays were able to head back into the dugout unscathed.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
The moon's strange yellow hue is the result of a phenomenon known as Rayleigh Scattering, wherein Earth's dense atmosphere interferes with the passage of shorter, bluer wavelengths of light, while allowing longer, redder, wavelengths to pass through relatively unscathed.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
No one was ever arrested for the crime that somehow left everyone else in the car, including another son of Bobbitt’s, physically unscathed.
—Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
The Yankees threatened with runners in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings, but the Blue Jays were able to head back into the dugout unscathed.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
The moon's strange yellow hue is the result of a phenomenon known as Rayleigh Scattering, wherein Earth's dense atmosphere interferes with the passage of shorter, bluer wavelengths of light, while allowing longer, redder, wavelengths to pass through relatively unscathed.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscathed
unharmed
Adjective
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The girl’s 22-month-old sister was unharmed.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2025
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The California Highway Patrol said one of the vehicles struck was a truck driven by a woman, who was unharmed.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Unscathed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscathed. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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