scalding
scalding Lexical Profile
scalding Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Extremely hot, especially of a liquid or steam, to the point of being able to cause a burn.
"She carefully poured the scalding water from the kettle into the ceramic teapot."
Harshly critical, bitter, or passionately intense in tone or expression.
"The investigative journalist published a scalding critique of the agency's financial mismanagement."
• noun
The act of burning or treating something with boiling liquid or steam, or a burn injury caused in this way.
"Brief scalding of the tomatoes in boiling water makes their skins much easier to peel."
• Rhymes for scalding
Word Origin & Etymology
From the verb 'scald', which entered Middle English via Anglo-Norman French 'escalder', ultimately deriving from Late Latin 'excaldare' ('to wash in hot water'), from 'ex-' (thoroughly) and 'calidus' (hot).