Usually means: Burning with very hot liquid.
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  1. scalding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scalding: Merriam-Webster
  3. scalding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scalding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scalding: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scalding: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scalding, scalding: Wordnik
  8. scalding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scalding: Wiktionary
  10. scalding: Dictionary.com
  11. scalding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Scalding (cooking), Scalding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Scalding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. scalding: Rhymezone
  15. Scalding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. scalding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. scalding: FreeDictionary.org
  18. scalding: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scalding: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalding: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. scalding: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scalding: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See scald as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a liquid) Hot enough to burn.
adjective:  (figurative) Scorching; scathing.
noun:  An instance of scalding: a burn.
noun:  (numismatics, historical) Synonym of escaline, (particularly) the form circulated by Stephen de Fulbourn in Ireland as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.

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