as in burn
a burn left on the skin that is caused by hot liquid or steam
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Recent Examples of scald
Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2024
Tomatoes grow thicker skins to prevent sun scald that causes brown patches to form on the skin.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 24 July 2024
Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Next, carefully place the silver items into the container, using tongs if needed to keep from scalding yourself.
—Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Wrap the trunk of very young trees to help protect them from sun scald, making sure to remove it after the last frost in spring.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2024
Tomatoes grow thicker skins to prevent sun scald that causes brown patches to form on the skin.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 24 July 2024
Verb
The plastic trays holding about $15,000 worth of peony starts were obliterated and the tiny balls of soil scalded in the heat.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Next, carefully place the silver items into the container, using tongs if needed to keep from scalding yourself.
—Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scald
Noun
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Most of it came from an intense line of storms that plowed through the city in the late afternoon, triggering flash flood warnings in the city and its burn scars, including the Eaton and Palisades fire zones.—
Hanna Park and Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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It has since been extinguished, but the burn scar remains, which poses a hazard to the area amid heavy rain.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Novo Nordisk , Biogen , Eisai, Merck and Pfizer Weight in portfolio: 2.72% Most recent buy: Nov. 25, 2024 Initiated: Oct. 8, 2021 Bottom line Eli Lilly has its stride back after a bruising three-month stretch for the stock that began with its messy third-quarter earnings report.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
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The website comes after a bruising two weeks for public health workers.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC News,
5 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Just don’t place them in direct sunlight, which will scorch their leaves.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2025
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Trump has already nixed most of the workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development, scorched the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and is set to dismantle the Education Department—all created and funded by Congress.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The dueling letters from Sassoon in New York and Bove in Washington laid bare in starkly personal language the gravity of a simmering, behind-the-scenes dispute over the handling of one of the Justice Department’s most significant current public corruption cases.—
Larry Neumeister,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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But Ringel’s script, which manages to skirt cheap laughs throughout, locates unexpected depth when a combination of carnal frustration, bad news and simmering resentments set the central pair against each other in earnest.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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The abuse included forcing her children to do physical labor, restricting food, binding one child's hands and feet and emotional harm.—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Here, Gomez speaks with Variety about the propriety of the FCC’s actions and the potential harm that may come to broadcast journalism.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The Democrats today recall the Whigs lacerated by Marx in nineteenth-century Britain, another liberal party tied to an arrogant economic elite.—
Matthew Karp,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Brzezinski and Scarborough’s criticism of the president’s day-one actions comes a little over two months after the talk show couple were lacerated by liberals for privately visiting then-President-elect Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate back in November.—
Harrison Chon-Walker,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Not to mention, just buying fresh, whole, totally unprocessed foods would require you to cook every meal, which can be impractical.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
11 Feb. 2025
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Traveling across Pakistan to cook and break bread with people from all over Pakistan was the ultimate coming home experience.—
Sonya Rehman,
Forbes,
11 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The veggies are parboiled until bright green and tender-crisp.—
Southern Living Editors,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2024
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The mottled beans that are parboiled and salted, the toxic pokeweed cooked into tasty greens, the dumplings wrapped in hickory leaves and tied with stalks of rush — these, like the milkies, are meant to be shared.—
Jacey Fortin Mike Belleme,
New York Times,
21 Oct. 2023
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“Scald.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scald. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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