Usually means: Burned with hot liquid, steam.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word scalded:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalded: Merriam-Webster
  2. scalded: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scalded: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scalded, scalded: Wordnik
  5. scalded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scalded: Wiktionary
  7. scalded: Dictionary.com
  8. scalded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Scalded: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Scalded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Scalded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. scalded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. scalded: FreeDictionary.org
  14. scalded: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scalded: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalded: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. scalded: Medical dictionary

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

(Note: See scald as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scald)

verb:  To burn with hot liquid.
verb:  (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
noun:  A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
noun:  (Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
noun:  (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
adjective:  (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
adjective:  (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
noun:  Alternative form of skald [(historical) A Nordic poet of the Viking Age.]
▸ Also see scald


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