Scalding

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scald \Scald\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scalded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Scalding}.] [OF. eschalder, eschauder, escauder, F.
     ['e]chauder, fr. L. excaldare; ex + caldus, calidus, warm,
     hot. See {Ex}, and {Caldron}.]
     1. To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by
        contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald


        the hand.
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              Mine own tears
              Do scald like molten lead.            --Shak.
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              Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
                                                    --Cowley.
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     2. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in
        hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scalding
       adj : marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks
             about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
             [syn: {scathing}, {blistering}, {vituperative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "scalding":
     ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning,
     burning hot, canicular, ebullient, feverish, fiery, flushed,
     grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace,
     like an oven, overheated, overwarm, parching, piping hot, red-hot,
     roasting, scorching, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling,
     sizzling hot, smoking hot, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering,
     sweltry, toasting, torrid, white-hot