to scald

Examples

• All

• The coffee maker overboils with a splutter, and she pulls back as scalding liquid sprays across the counter.

  Fiction book (1990)

• My hand is really quite badly scalded now.

  In the Loop (2009)

• Okay, look, this is scalding hot coffee.

  A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)

• When I put a hand on it, it was scalding to the touch.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The water scalded her arms and her thighs and left them bright red and burning.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Rafael's breath burned in his throat and scalded his chest as he watched her.

  Fiction book (1994)

• In the shower, I scald myself, tugging helplessly at the jammed cold water knob.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Christopher's pink skin was temporarily red and blotchy as his body accustomed itself to the scalding bathwater.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The child accidentally scalded his hand in the hot bath water.

• After the soup was heated, she realized it was so hot that it could easily scald her tongue.

Antonyms

C

to cool

256 1.0

To make or become less warm

How Hot

to burn

∞ 1.0

to sear

76 6.1

to scald

14 4.8

to heat

298 1.0

to warm

488 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology