Scalding

Definition: Scalding

Scalding

Adjective

1. Hot enough to boil; "boiling water".

Date "scalding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of being scalded, portends that distressing incidents will blot out pleasurable anticipations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Food & Agriculture	Immersing a food product in hot water with the purpose of making a subsequent process easier and better. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Scalding

Synonym: boiling (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Scalding

Specialty definitions using "scalding": Bedbugs ♦ POULTRY HANGER ♦ TRIPE COOKER. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Is it the kind of ordeal like visiting a rather bad tempered, elderly female relative is an ordeal, or is it more the plunging your hand into a pot of scalding water to see how quickly it strips the skin off sort of ordeal? (NeverWhere; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry)
Movie/TV Titles	Scalding and Scraping Hogs (1901) Hot Scalding (1989)
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Domain	Title
Books	Lizard on the scalding stone (reference) Silent Screams and Scalding Psalms (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	It was scalding hot, and he decided not to drink it.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	They drank the scalding coffee and threw the grounds to the earth and filled their cups again.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Scalding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.98% of the time. "Scalding" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	50.98%	26	68,323
Adjective (general or positive)	43.14%	22	74,468
Noun (singular)	3.92%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	1.96%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	51	N/A

Expressions using "scalding": scalding ( the stems of vines ) ♦ scalding hot ♦ scalding tears. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "scalding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përvëlues (burning, fiery, torrid, withering), i nxehtë (ardent, burning, earnest, fervent, fiery, glowing, heated, hot, red-hot, torrid). (various references)

Arabic		‏غال (dear, ebullient, exclusive, piping hot), ‏سافع, ‏السامط. (various references)

Bulgarian		попарващ. (various references)

Chinese		烫伤 (scald, Scalded). (various references)

Czech		horký (blazing, fervent, hot, torrid). (various references)

Danish		skoldning (scalding of plaster casts, scolding). (various references)

Dutch		broeien (scalding of plaster casts). (various references)

Finnish		kalttaus (scalding ( the stems of vines )), kalttaaminen (scalding ( the stems of vines )). (various references)

French		brûlant (scorching), bouillant (scorching), échaudage. (various references)

German		verbrühend. (various references)

Greek		ζεμάτισμα (scald, scalding ( the stems of vines )). (various references)

Hebrew		חליט�", כוי�" (burn, burning, cauterization, cautery, scorch), �"�'על�" (rinsing in hot water, scouring), �"רתח�" (boiling, wrath). (various references)

Hungarian		forró (boiling, burning, ebullient, fervent, fervid, heated, hot, perfervid, torrid), leforrázás (infusion), forralás (boiling), felforralás. (various references)

Italian		scottatura (bark scorch, burn, combustion, scald, scolding, scorch, scorching, sunburn, sunscald, white spot). (various references)

Korean		데게 함. (various references)

Manx		scoaldey (poach, poaching, scald). (various references)

Pig Latin		aldingscay

Portuguese		muito quente (very hot), escaldante (baking, fiery), escaldão (scald, scorching), a ferver. (various references)

Romanian		lacrimi fierbinţi (scalding tears). (various references)

Russian		жгучий (burning, salt), едкий (acerb, acerbic, acrid, biting, caustic, corrosive, mordant, poignant, pungent, scathing, sulphurous, tart, vitriolic). (various references)

Scottish		teth (hot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vreo (boiling, hot, piping), ošuren, ključao. (various references)

Spanish		hirviente (boiling, seething), escaldor, escaldado (loose, scalding ( the stems of vines ), scorching, wary, wilting of shoots). (various references)

Swedish		skållhet. (various references)

Turkish		manevi acı ile dökülen gözyaşları (scalding tears), kaynar (scalding hot), hamam gibi (scalding hot), fokur fokur (scalding hot), cehennem gibi (hellish, infernal, scalding hot), üzüntü ile dokülen gözyaşları (scalding tears). (various references)

Ukranian		їдкий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, caustic, corrosive, nipping, poignant, scathing), гарячий (ardent, broiling, earnest, fervent, hot, hot tempered, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, mettled, mettlesome, ornery, torrid, warm), обшпарювання (scald), бланшування, палючий (baking). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	conbusta, conbusti, conbustum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Scalding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calding, scaldingly, scaldini, scaleing, scalingc, scalings, scalling, Scalvini, Scandig, Schladming, scoldings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "scalding" (pronounced skô"lding)
5	-ô" l d i ng	balding.
4	-l d i ng	beholding, building, Fielding, folding, gilding, handholding, heralding, holding, landholding, Melding, molding, moulding, nonbuilding, overbuilding, rebuilding, scaffolding, scolding, shielding, shipbuilding, unfolding, unyielding, upholding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, yielding.
3	-d i ng	abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, banding, bedding, beheading, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, finding, flooding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handing, heading, heeding, herding, hiding, hoarding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unloading, unwinding, upgrading, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, wending, winding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-i-l-n-s"
	-1 letter: lacings, ladings, ligands, scaling.
	-2 letters: alcids, algins, aligns, canids, casing, clangs, clings, glacis, glands, island, lacing, lading, lasing, liangs, ligand, ligans, linacs, lingas, nicads, signal.
	-3 letters: acids, acing, alcid, algid, algin, align, anils, asdic, cadis, caids, cains, canid, clads, clags, clang, clans, cling, dangs, dials, dings, gadis, gains, gilds, glads, gland, glans, glias, laics, lands, liang, ligan, linac, linga, lings, nails, nicad, nidal, salic, scald, slain, slang, sling, snail.
	-4 letters: acid, agin, aids, ails, ains, ands, anil, anis, asci, cadi, cads, caid, cain, cans, cigs, clad, clag, clan, dags, dais, dals, dang, dial, digs, ding, dins, disc, gadi, gads, gain, gals, gids, gild, gins, glad, glia, lacs, lads, lags, laic, laid, lain, land, lang, lids, ling, lins, nags, nail, nils, sadi, said, sail, sain, sand, sang, scad, scag, scan, sial, sign, sild, sing, slag, slid, snag.
	-5 letters: ads, aid, ail, ain, ais, als, and, ani, cad, can, cig, cis, dag, dal, dig, din, dis, gad, gal, gan, gas, gid, gin, ids, ins, lac, lad, lag, las, lid, lin, lis, nag, nil, sac, sad, sag, sal, sic, sin.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-g-i-l-n-s"
	+1 letter: claddings.
	+2 letters: anglicised, declassing, displacing, escalading, scandaling.
	+3 letters: backsliding, disclaiming, dislocating, downscaling, landscaping, scaffolding, scandalling.
	+4 letters: candlelights, cladogenesis, decreasingly, deescalating, descrambling, diagnostical, radicalising, scaffoldings, scandalising, scandalizing.
	+5 letters: chalcogenides, childbearings, consolidating, declassifying, deglaciations, desacralizing, distractingly, glucuronidase, relandscaping, stickhandling.
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