scald

/skɔ:ld/

Thân thiện

She scalded her hand while pouring hot tea.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To burn with hot liquid or steam: To injure by brief contact with a very hot liquid or its vapor.
   • To heat a liquid to just below its boiling point: To heat a liquid, especially milk, to a temperature near boiling, often to prepare it for cooking or to destroy bacteria.
   • To treat with boiling water: To pour boiling water over something, typically to clean it, loosen skin, or remove impurities.
   • To criticize harshly: To subject someone or something to severe, often public, criticism.

2. Noun:

   • A burn caused by hot liquid or steam: An injury to the skin resulting from contact with a hot liquid or its vapor.
   • The act of scalding: The process or instance of burning with hot liquid or steam.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:

  • She scalded her tongue on the hot soup. (She burned her tongue with the hot soup.)
  • The recipe says to scald the milk before adding the yeast. (The recipe says to heat the milk to near boiling before adding the yeast.)
  • You should scald the tomatoes to peel them easily. (You should pour boiling water over the tomatoes to peel them easily.)
  • The critic scalded the new film in his review. (The critic harshly criticized the new film in his review.)

• Noun:

  • He suffered a painful scald from the boiling water. (He suffered a painful burn from the boiling water.)
  • The scald on her arm required medical attention. (The burn on her arm from hot liquid required medical attention.)

Advanced Usage

• "To scald oneself": To accidentally burn oneself with hot liquid or steam.

  • Be careful not to scald yourself when opening the pressure cooker.

• Scalding hot: An intensifier describing a liquid that is extremely hot, hot enough to cause a scald.

  • The tea was scalding hot and could not be drunk immediately.

Variants and Related Words

• Scalding (adjective): Extremely hot; burning. Also used to describe harsh criticism.
  • She poured the scalding water into the cup.
  • He faced scalding remarks from his opponents.

Synonyms

• Verb (to burn): Burn, sear.
• Verb (to heat): Heat, bring to a simmer.
• Verb (to criticize): Blister, lambaste, excoriate, savage.
• Noun (burn): Burn, thermal burn.

Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases

• Scald out: To clean or purify by pouring boiling water into or over something. (Less common in modern usage).
  • She scalded out the thermos before using it.

Related Idioms

• None commonly associated solely with "scald." The word itself is often used in descriptive phrases like "scalding hot" or "scalding criticism."

Học thuật

Noun

1. the act of burning with steam or hot water
2. a burn cause by hot liquid or steam

Verb

1. burn with a hot liquid or steam
   • She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out
2. heat to the boiling point
   • scald the milk
3. treat with boiling water
   • scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled
4. subject to harsh criticism
   • The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday
   • the professor scaled the students
   • your invectives scorched the community

Từ đồng nghĩa

• blister
• whip