scalding
- adjective
- /ˈskɔːldɪŋ/
- He warned us not to touch the scalding soup until it had cooled down.
Everybody knows wired put raw egg in your scalding hot tea.
- Everybody knows wired put raw egg in your scalding hot tea.
- But now thermoses keep things, like, scalding hot.
Examples
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But now thermoses keep things, like, scalding hot.
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Be careful when pouring the scalding water; it can easily cause burns.
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Everybody knows wired put raw egg in your scalding hot tea.
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I mean, it's it takes scalding hot water, so hot that you scald your own hand off if you touched it, and you pour it over foliage.
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And we get these gigantic bowls of soup and I just remember barely starting and scalding hot, and I had three or four spoonfuls and you were done with your soup.
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After stepping on the scalding pavement in the summer heat, I quickly ran to the shade.
Synonyms
Very hot and like burning flames
Too hot or intense in a way that causes danger and discomfort
So warm it glows red
Very hot and making a hissing sound
Extremely hot, like strong sun that can burn skin
Very hot and dry, often uncomfortable for people
Feels very hot, like you are inside an oven
Very hot and likely to burn the skin
Hot or strong because of a chemical and able to hurt the skin
Giving a hot, stinging feeling in the mouth or on the skin
Very hot so you want to find shade and drink water
A very hot burning pain that hurts a lot
Very hot, like the heat inside an oven
Extremely hot, with a temperature much higher than normal
Very hot, with high temperature or strong spice
Antonyms
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word scalding comes from the old word scald, which means 'to burn with very hot liquid'. So something scalding is very hot and can burn your skin.