scald [skawld] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
scald [skawld]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: burn
Synonyms: blanch, char, criticize, excoriate, heat, parboil, scorch
Main Entry: clean
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make undirty, uncluttered
Synonyms: absterge, bath, bathe, blot, brush, cauterize, clarify, cleanse, clear the decks, clear up, deodorize, depurate, deterge, disinfect, do up, dredge, dust, edulcorate, elutriate, erase, expunge, expurgate, flush, hackle, launder, lave, mop, neaten, pick, pick up, polish, purge, purify, rake, rasp, refine, rinse, rout out, sanitize, scald, scour, scrape, scrub, shake out, shampoo, soak, soap, sponge, spruce up, sterilize, straighten up, swab, sweep, tidy up, vacuum, wash, whisk, winnow, wipe
Antonyms: adulterate, defile, dirty, foul, soil, stain
Main Entry: cook
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: prepare food, usually using heat
Synonyms: French fry, bake, barbecue, blanch, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, burn, coddle, curry, decoct, deep fry, devil, doctor*, escallop, fix, fricassee, fry, griddle, grill, heat, imbue, melt, microwave, mull, nuke, panfry, parboil, parch, percolate, poach, pressure-cook, reduce, roast, ruin*, sauté, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, simmer, sizzle, spoil*, steam, steep, stew, toast, warm up
Example Sentences
  • It may not exactly scald you, but it should give you a pretty bad burn.
  • It seems to scald the tongues of those who tell it too.
  • Scald the cream and add in a slow, steady stream to the ingredients, blending at medium speed.
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Main Entry: heat
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make or become hot
Synonyms: bake, bask, blaze, boil, broil, calorify, chafe, char, enflame, enkindle, fire, flame, flush, frizzle, fry, glow, grill, grow hot, grow warm, ignite, incandesce, incinerate, inflame, kindle, melt, oxidate, oxidize, perspire, raise the temperature, reheat, roast, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, set on fire, singe, smelt, steam, sun, swelter, tepefy, thaw, toast, warm, warm up
Antonyms: cool, freeze
Main Entry: incinerate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reduce to ashes
Synonyms: blaze, burn, combust, consume, cremate, flame, ignite, light, parch, scald, scorch, set a match to, torch
Main Entry: scorch
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: burn
Synonyms: bake, blacken, blister, broil, char, cook, melt, parch, roast, scald, sear, seethe, shrivel, simmer, singe, stale, stew, swelter, wither
Antonyms: freeze
Main Entry: singe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: burn
Synonyms: blacken, blaze, brand, brown, cauterize, char, cook, flame, ignite, incinerate, parch, scald, scorch, sear, toast, torch
Related Words
Main Entry: heat
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
combustible, ablaze, adiaphoretic, afire, alight, anhidrotic, ardent, baking, blazing, blood-hot, blood-warm, buldering, burning-hot, burnt, calefacient, calorific, candent, canicular, close, coctile, deflagrable, diaphoretic, diathermal, diathermanous, ebullient, estiferous, estival, euthermic, fervent, fervid, fiery, genial, glowing, heated, heating, hidrotic, hot, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, igneous, ignescent, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in a heat, in a perspiration, in a sweat, in flames, incalescent, incandescent, inflamed, inflammable, isotheral, isothermal, isothermic, kindling, like a furnace, like an oven, lukewarm, mild, molten, on fire, oppressive, piping-hot, plutonic, pyretic, red-hot, reeking, scumfished, semiustulate, smoking, smoking-hot, smoldering, sodden, stifling, stuffy, sudoriferous, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, sunny, sweltered, sweltering, sweltry, swullocking, tepid, thalpotic, thermal, thermic, torrid, tropical, unextinguished, unfrozen, unquenched, ustulated, volcanic, warm, warm as toast, warm as wool, white-hot
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Heat.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat
Synonyms:
-nouns
heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic., phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence., summer, dog days; canicular days; baking heat, white heat, tropical heat, African heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming., sun (luminary)., [Science of heat] pyrology; thermology, thermotics; thermometer.
-verbs
be hot; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant., heat (make hot); recalesce; thaw, give.
-adjectives
hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow., sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking; baking., red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox., fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling; in flames, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool., volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal, isothermic, isotheral.
-phrases
not a breath of air; "whirlwinds of tempestuous fire" [Paradise Lost].
Antonyms: cold
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