[
UK
/skˈɒld/
]
[ US /ˈskɔɫd/ ]
[ US /ˈskɔɫd/ ]
VERB
-
treat with boiling water
scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled -
subject to harsh criticism
your invectives scorched the community
The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday
the professor scaled the students -
burn with a hot liquid or steam
She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out -
heat to the boiling point
scald the milk
NOUN
- the act of burning with steam or hot water
- a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
How To Use scald In A Sentence
- Different-shaped handles, square for hot and round for cold, would permit the soapy-eyed bather to adjust water temperature without alternately scalding or freezing himself.
- For the chocolate soup: In a saucepan, scald the cream.
- Lavender oil is a natural disinfectant, antiseptic, and antibiotic which promotes healing and prevents scarring, and is especially effective for the treatment of burns and scalds.
- I was nearly scalded in the desert.
- Silver maple and English walnut are examples of trees that can be damaged by sun scald in summer, but not during winter, when they are completely defoliated anyway.
- Various objections might be made to motivational hedonism: that we are often motivated by things that do not in fact maximize our pleasure, such as motivation to step under a shower that one takes to be suitably warm but which is in fact scalding hot; that not every pleasure that our options for action make available to us motivates us; or that the very idea of maximum ˜pleasure over pain™ or Hedonism
- C.C. testified that she was also deliberately scalded by her mother on numerous occasions when she was in the bathtub, leaving permanent scars.
- There is also a also belong to the scalding hot device.
- Take a pig being scalded, boned, and chined down the back, then soak the collars clean from the blood the space of two hours, dry them in The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
- In too much sun they may suffer scald on the leaves, or the leaves may appear yellow rather than deep green.