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.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- transitive 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.
- noun. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
- adjective. Affected with the scab; scabby.
- adjective. Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
- noun. Scurf on the head. See Scall.
- noun. 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.
- noun. the act of burning with steam or hot water
- noun. a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- verb. burn with a hot liquid or steam
"She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out"
- verb. heat to the boiling point
"scald the milk"
- verb. treat with boiling water
"scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled"
- verb. subject to harsh criticism
"The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"
"the professor scaled the students"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scald:
Common word forms
scalds, scalded, scalder, scalding
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