scalding

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}.]
   1. 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.
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            Mine own tears
            Do scald like molten lead.            --Shak.
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            Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
                                                  --Cowley.
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   2. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in
      hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
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40 Moby Thesaurus words for "scalding":
      ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning,
      burning hot, canicular, ebullient, feverish, fiery, flushed,
      grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace,
      like an oven, overheated, overwarm, parching, piping hot, red-hot,
      roasting, scorching, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling,
      sizzling hot, smoking hot, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering,
      sweltry, toasting, torrid, white-hot