scald
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I eat it standing, careful not to scald my tongue.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
The NHS advises to call 111 if your child has a burn or scald, and you are not sure what to do.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
When this anger boiled over, it threatened to scald more than the British.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Leo’s veterinarian said in his case file that he had been losing weight throughout the year and had urine scald, a condition the vet said couldn’t be treated in the lab setting.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
It was hot enough to scald my tongue, but the heat of the cup warmed my hands as I stole a look at the drawing on the box.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Page views on burns and scalds and how to treat them also increased.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
Sy Baumgartner, a 70-year-old professor of philosophy at Princeton, scalds his hand at the stove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
Taking the play in is like sipping a rarefied eau de vie, the kind that scalds as it cools.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
One twin falls down the crumbling stairs of her Calcutta house and breaks her ankle; the other scalds her thigh on a tipped cup of coffee in a European station.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
The day in and day out of needle pricks, scalds, and raw-skinned hands from cooking and scrubbing was wearing on me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
"He looked like he'd been scalded by hot water," the mother of three told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
So McDonald's had a responsibility not to make coffee that burned you, that scalded you.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023
So hot that you could be scalded by the first blast of sunbaked water to come out of the garden hose.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2023
Vargas and Outman walked with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, but Rojas scalded a 99-mph line drive right at shortstop Nick Ahmed to end the inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
When the cream was ready, Ma scalded the long wooden churn-dash, put it in the churn, and dropped the wooden churn-cover over it.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
So even if scalding hot drinks might increase someone's risk, the chances of them developing the cancer are still low.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The title invokes the container for holding scalding liquid metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
On a particularly scalding summer day, my friend wanted Chinese food, so I opted to get fried tofu with mixed vegetables and white rice delivered.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
Though the ground around hydrothermal areas may appear solid, it is often fragile with scalding water lurking just below the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
The tea was scalding, much too hot to drink.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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