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 Earthquakes didn’t leave the game unscathed on the injury front either.
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Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
Five other workers and customers in the pizzeria managed to escape unscathed.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 8 July 2025
While Cena came out mostly unscathed, there was one person who wasn’t participating in the match that took one of the hardest bumps of the night.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
Pixar movies tend to thrive on the basis of their worlds; the galactic landscape—which emerged unscathed from all the tweaking—felt far too thinly sketched to me, even setting aside the low-stakes adventure taking place within it.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 July 2025
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Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
Five other workers and customers in the pizzeria managed to escape unscathed.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 8 July 2025
While Cena came out mostly unscathed, there was one person who wasn’t participating in the match that took one of the hardest bumps of the night.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
Pixar movies tend to thrive on the basis of their worlds; the galactic landscape—which emerged unscathed from all the tweaking—felt far too thinly sketched to me, even setting aside the low-stakes adventure taking place within it.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscathed
unharmed
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Thankfully, Streep seemed unharmed and was able to continue filming without incident.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
3 Aug. 2025
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However, the passenger was unharmed, and the Icon of the Seas ship, which is owned by Royal Caribbean, returned as scheduled from a trip to the Bahamas to its home port of Miami, Florida.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
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“Unscathed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscathed. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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