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scald
scald is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
- 2transitive verb
To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
- 3noun
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
- 4adjective
Affected with the scab; scabby.
- 5adjective
Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
- 6noun
Scurf on the head. See Scall.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
the act of burning with steam or hot water
- 9noun
a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- 10verb
burn with a hot liquid or steam
"She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out"
- 11verb
heat to the boiling point
"scald the milk"
- 12verb
treat with boiling water
"scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled"
- 13verb
subject to harsh criticism
"The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"
"the professor scaled the students"
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