Crossword clues for scalded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scald \Scald\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scalded; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalding.] [OF. eschalder, eschauder, escauder, F. ['e]chauder, fr. L. excaldare; ex + caldus, calidus, warm, hot. See Ex, and Caldron.]
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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.
Mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
--Shak.Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
--Cowley. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: scald)
Usage examples of "scalded".
If peeled and pounded in a mortar, uncooked Potatoes applied cold make a very soothing cataplasm to parts that have been scalded, or burnt.
The first phase of this plan entailed the seizure of the approaches to the Sardi Gorge and particularly important 1: in this dry and scalded desert would be the water supplies of the attacking army.
All that could be done was to smear the scalded and blistered flesh with locomotive grease.
Now that the excitement was over, his scalded foot was beginning to smart.
Yashim jerked his head up, to watch the attendant bringing him a basin of cold water for his scalded foot.
She was scalded over her entire body, save her ankles and feet, which were only mildly burned by comparison.
A striker got careless and was scalded by the steam, and had to be set ashore at Napoleon.
She stared at him, feeling the blood rush from her face only to rush back again almost as quickly in a hot tide that scalded her cheeks and brought stinging tears to her eyes.
Nothing looked disturbed but she could smell the acrid stench of scalded tea bags.
I asked my old mother about it one day, and she scalded me--God bless her!
And I learned the torture of working six hours at a stretch: cramped wrists, swollen elbows, aching back, thumb and fingertips scalded by constant pressure on the quill.
Black anger scalded his heart, and he himself killed the queens and the screaming, terrified children.
Uncontrollable panic took charge of my limbs and like a scalded cat I threw myself against the stone door.
The spearman under my hand had been scalded through the joints of his armor with boiled bran poured on him as he climbed the siege ladder.