Scald
verb
To burn with hot liquid or steam.
Be careful not to scald yourself with the boiling water.
Often appears as...
- scald oneself
- scald with hot water
noun
A burn caused by hot liquid or steam.
He got a severe scald from the spilled coffee.
Often appears as...
- severe scald
- scald from hot liquid
verb
To expose to a high temperature briefly, often as a method of cooking or preparing food.
You need to scald the milk before adding it to the mixture.
Often appears as...
- scald the milk
- scald the vegetables
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To burn with hot liquid or steam.
Be careful not to scald yourself with the boiling water.
Often appears as...
- scald oneself
- scald with hot water
noun
A burn caused by hot liquid or steam.
He got a severe scald from the spilled coffee.
Often appears as...
- severe scald
- scald from hot liquid
verb
To expose to a high temperature briefly, often as a method of cooking or preparing food.
You need to scald the milk before adding it to the mixture.
Often appears as...
- scald the milk
- scald the vegetables
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Safety Caution
Often used in the context of warning or safety to prevent accidents with hot fluids.
Always wear gloves to avoid a scald when draining pasta.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphorical Use
Can be used metaphorically to describe a very intense but brief emotional experience.
Her harsh words scalded his pride more than he expected.
Pro Tip 1/2Safety Caution
Often used in the context of warning or safety to prevent accidents with hot fluids.
Always wear gloves to avoid a scald when draining pasta.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphorical Use
Can be used metaphorically to describe a very intense but brief emotional experience.
Her harsh words scalded his pride more than he expected.
Pro Tip 1/2Safety Caution
Often used in the context of warning or safety to prevent accidents with hot fluids.
Always wear gloves to avoid a scald when draining pasta.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphorical Use
Can be used metaphorically to describe a very intense but brief emotional experience.
Her harsh words scalded his pride more than he expected.
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Why don’t poisonous...
and found two rare beetles underneath. He’d just taken one beetle in each hand when he spotted a third beetle. Stashing one of the insects in his mouth for safekeeping, he reached for the new specimen – when a sudden spray of hot, bitter fluid scalded his tongue.
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Mike deGruy: Hooked by...
between over here is scalding hot and freezing cold. And this whole ecosystem wasn't even known about until 33 years ago. And it completely threw science on its head. It made scientists rethink where life on Earth might have actually begun.
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A Moment in the Sun by...
scalding nastiest of neighbors most unwelcoming to guests where LED would melt to silver puddles on a surface of volcanic scars leaving only Mars some say our final chance of finding life elsewhere named after a god of war
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Harnessing the Power of...
geological features especially its spectacular geysers most notably the one called old faithful which shoots huge jets of scalding water into the air just over once an hour
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Why don’t poisonous...
and found two rare beetles underneath. He’d just taken one beetle in each hand when he spotted a third beetle. Stashing one of the insects in his mouth for safekeeping, he reached for the new specimen – when a sudden spray of hot, bitter fluid scalded his tongue.
Video examples
Mike deGruy: Hooked by...
between over here is scalding hot and freezing cold. And this whole ecosystem wasn't even known about until 33 years ago. And it completely threw science on its head. It made scientists rethink where life on Earth might have actually begun.
Video examples
A Moment in the Sun by...
scalding nastiest of neighbors most unwelcoming to guests where LED would melt to silver puddles on a surface of volcanic scars leaving only Mars some say our final chance of finding life elsewhere named after a god of war
Video examples
Harnessing the Power of...
geological features especially its spectacular geysers most notably the one called old faithful which shoots huge jets of scalding water into the air just over once an hour
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Quote examples
Bill Walton
American Athlete
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.
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Amy Lowell
American Poet
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
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Kurt Braunohler
American Comedian
It is an intern's job to go for coffee for anyone who asks, preferably delivering it scalding hot and cupped in your bare hands!
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
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Thomas Fuller
English Clergyman
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
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Bill Walton
American Athlete
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.
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Amy Lowell
American Poet
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
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Kurt Braunohler
American Comedian
It is an intern's job to go for coffee for anyone who asks, preferably delivering it scalding hot and cupped in your bare hands!
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
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Thomas Fuller
English Clergyman
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
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