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scalding

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scald·ing  (skôldng)
adj.
1. Causing a burning sensation, as from contact with hot liquid.
2. Boiling: scalding water.
3. Scorching; searing: scalding sunlight.
4. Harshly critical or denunciatory; scathing: a scalding review of the play.
scalding·ly adv.
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scalding
adjective burning, boiling, searing, blistering, piping hot scalding hot water
Translations
scalding [ˈskɔːldɪŋ] ADJ it's scalding (hot) → está hirviendo or (LAm) que arde
the soup is scalding → la sopa está muy caliente
scalding [ˈskɔːldɪŋ] adj (also scalding hot) → brûlant(e), bouillant(e)
scalding
adj → siedend; (inf: = very hot) → siedend heiß; (fig) tears → heiß
adv scalding hot → siedend heiß; skin, weather → glühend heiß
scalding [ˈskɔːldɪŋ] adj scalding hot → bollente
scalding [ˈskɔːldɪŋ] adj scalding hot → bollente


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They then fell upon each other's neck and wept scalding rills down each other's spine in token of their banishment to the Realm of Ineffable Bosh.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The coffee pot was scalding, the coffee was measured out in a bowl, and broken eggshells for the settling process were standing near.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
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