Scald



GRE

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• v. 烫, 用沸水消毒; n. 烫伤
• ［英］ v. 烫, 用沸水消毒 ( to burn with hot liquid or steam) ; n. 烫伤 ( an injury caused by scalding)
• ［例］ He scalded his tongue on the hot coffee.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French *escalder, eschauder, from Late Latin excaldare to wash in warm water, from Latin ex- + calida, calda warm water, from feminine of calidus warm, from calēre to be warm — more at lee
• Date: 13th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to burn with or as if with hot liquid or steam
  • 2.
    • a. to subject to the action of boiling water or steam
    • b. to bring to a temperature just below the boiling point <scald milk>
  • 3. scorch
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to scald something
  • 2. to become scalded

II. noun

• Date: 1601
• 1. an injury to the body caused by scalding
• 2. an act or process of scalding
• 3. any of various conditions or diseases of plants or fruits marked especially by a usually brownish discoloration of tissue

III. adjective

• Etymology: scall + ［sup］1［/sup］-ed
• Date: 1529
• 1. archaic scabby, scurfy
• 2. archaic shabby, contemptible

IV. *variant of skald V. adjective

• Etymology: alteration of scalded
• Date: 1791
• subjected to scalding <coffee…with scald cream — Charles Kingsley>

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