I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
boiling/scalding/steaming hot (= used about liquid that is extremely hot )
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The coffee was scalding hot.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Scald the milk and add it to the bowl.
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He was badly scalded when a cup of hot coffee spilled on him.
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If you're not careful you'll scald yourself on/with that kettle.
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The hot coffee nearly scalded his tongue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A scalding liquid stopped up his throat when he tried to speak.
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A man who'd been scalded in the kitchens by cooking oil.
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Born in the scalding heat of the equator, she had, after all, been named after snow.
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Dressed, he walks out there, into sun which pours over him like a thick, scalding soup.
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For the second time tears scalded her eyes.
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I wish I could tell you that I poured scalding coffee in his lap!
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She turned her head away, scalding tears coursing down her cheeks and on to the pillow which had absorbed her earlier grief.
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They were going to scald it, Scald it and scour it like a doorstep.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I opened my mouth and felt the scalds on the mucous membrane inside my throat.