scalding
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Scalding and propulsive, Ms. Fuller always seems to be testing the limits of her own power — as if seeing if she can single-handedly overload your ear’s switchboard.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2018
Or a cartoon exploding Pinto, cartoon cigarettes, cartoon asbestos, a cartoon depicting that historic moment in torts when a 190-degree cup of McDonald’s coffee burned Scalding Crusader Stella Liebeck.
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2015
Scalding ash storms across to engulf me again.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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I live on board the Wang hoónee gua ímmatong I ship small to live. brigs Of Burning and Scalding.
From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Hall, Basil
Scalding of the Urine.—Equal parts of the oil of red cedar, and the oil of spearmint.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham
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