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v. To burn with or as if with hot liquid or steam.

v. To subject to or treat with boiling water: scalded the hide to remove the hair; scalded and peeled the tomatoes.

v. To heat (a liquid, such as milk) almost to the boiling point.

v. To criticize harshly; excoriate.

verb-intransitive. To become scalded.

n. A body injury caused by scalding.

n. Botany A superficial discoloration on fruit, vegetables, leaves, or tree trunks caused by sudden exposure to intense sunlight or the action of gases.

n. Botany A disease of some cereal grasses caused by a fungus of the genus Rhynchosporium.

n. Variant of skald.

n. Variant of scall.

v. To burn with hot liquid.

v. To heat almost to boiling.

n. Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.

n. Alternative form of skald.

v. To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid.

v. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor.

n. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.

adj. Affected with the scab; scabby.

adj. Scurvy; paltry.

n. Scurf on the head. See scall.

n. One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.

To burn or affect painfully with or as with a hot or boiling liquid or with steam: formerly used also of burning with a hot iron.

To cook slightly by exposure for a short time to steam or to hot water or some other heated liquid: as, to scald milk.

To subject to the action of boiling water for the purpose of cleansing thoroughly: as, to scald a tub.

n. A burn or injury to the skin and flesh by a hot liquid or vapor.

n. Scab; scall; scurf on the head.

See scalled.

n. An ancient Scandinavian poet; one who composed poems in honor of distinguished men and their achievements, and recited and sang them on public occasions. The scalds of the Norsemen answered to the bards of the Britons or Celts.

A Scotch form of scold.

n. A European dodder, Cuscuta Europæa. Also scaldweed.

n. Same as sun-scald, 2.

v. treat with boiling water

n. the act of burning with steam or hot water

v. burn with a hot liquid or steam

n. a burn cause by hot liquid or steam

v. subject to harsh criticism

v. heat to the boiling point

"A scald is a burn injury from hot liquid or steam that damages one or more layers of skin."

scalded    scalding    scalds   

process    treat    burn    lash out    snipe    assault    round    assail    attack    heat up   

scald of grape    scald of cranberry   

scall    skald   

scalded    scalding   

scabby    scurvy    paltry    contemptible   

appalled    auld    bald    balled    bawled    called    crawled    drawled    enthralled    hald