Usually means: Burns caused by hot liquids.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalds: Merriam-Webster
  2. scalds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scalds: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scalds, scalds: Wordnik
  5. scalds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scalds: Wiktionary
  7. scalds: Dictionary.com
  8. scalds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. scalds: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

(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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