- Causing a burning sensation, as from contact with hot liquid.
- Boiling: scalding water.
- Scorching; searing: scalding sunlight.
- Harshly critical or denunciatory; scathing: a scalding review of the play.
scalding
Dictionary:
scald·ing (skôl'dĭng)  |
adj.
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| Veterinary Dictionary: scalding |
Plunging of pig or poultry carcasses into very hot water to facilitate scraping and dehairing and plucking. Chicken scalding water is 130°F for broilers (larger birds higher) applied for 1 to 2 minutes. Modern pig abattoirs use steam at 144 to 147°F for about 3 minutes. This avoids overheating the carcasses.
| Word Tutor: scalding |
IN BRIEF: Burning, so hot as to harm the skin.
Average is like having one foot in ice water and one foot in scalding water - on the average you are comfortable.
— Anonymous.
| WordNet: scalding |
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The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
hot enough to boil
Synonym: boiling
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