scathing

verb
/ˈskeɪðɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of scathe

  2. Harshly or bitterly critical

    Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic.

  3. Harmful or painful

    Harmful or painful; acerbic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at scathing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at scathing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at scathing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA