scalding

• abrupt
• abusing
• acerb
• acerbic
• acid
• acidic
• acidulous
• acrid
• acrimonious
• afflicting
• aggrieving
• ardent
• backhanded
• baking
• barbed
• battering
• biting
• bitter
• blazing
• blemishing
• blistering
• bloodying
• blowing out
• blunt
• boiling
• braising
• brisk
• broiling
• bruising
• brusk
• brusque
• burning
• calescent
• canicular
• caustic
• charring
• close
• coddling
• concise
• contusing
• cooking
• corrosive
• creasing
• crippling
• crisp
• cross
• curt
• cutting
• cynical
• damaging
• decalescent
• dry
• enflamed
• facetious
• febrile
• fervent
• fervid
• fevered
• feverish
• feverous
• fiery
• firing
• flaming
• flippant
• flushed
• fricasseeing
• gashing
• glowing
• goring
• grazing
• gruff
• hamstringing
• harming
• harsh
• heated
• heating
• hot
• humid
• hurting
• igneous
• impairing
• incandescent
• incisive
• inflamed
• injuring
• insincere
• ironic
• ironical
• keen
• lacerating
• laming
• laying up
• like an oven
• maiming
• maltreating
• mangling
• marring
• molten
• mordant
• muggy
• mutilating
• nicking
• on fire
• ovenlike
• overheated
• overheating
• parboiling
• parching
• piping
• piping hot
• pithy
• poaching
• poignant
• pressure-cooking
• pungent
• reboiling
• recalescent
• red
• red-hot
• reheated
• reheating
• resentful
• rewarming
• roasting
• rough
• sarcastic
• sardonic
• satiric
• satirical
• scarring
• scathing
• scorching
• scraping
• searing
• seething
• severe
• sharp
• sharp-tongued
• simmering
• sizzling
• smart-aleck
• smart-alecky
• smart-mouthed
• smoking
• smothering
• snarky
• snippety
• snippy
• snug
• sour
• sourish
• spikey
• spiky
• spoiling
• steaming
• steamy
• stewing
• straining
• stringent
• stuffy
• succinct
• sultry
• summerlike
• summery
• superheated
• superheating
• sweltering
• sweltry
• tart
• tartish
• tearing
• terse
• thawing
• thermogenic
• toasting
• toasty
• tongue-in-cheek
• tormenting
• torrid
• torturing
• trenchant
• tropic
• tropical
• ultrahot
• very warm
• vitriolic
• warm
• warmed
• warming
• warmish
• white
• white-hot
• wounding
• wry

• affable
• algid
• amusing
• arctic
• benumbed
• bitter
• bland
• blizzardly
• bone-chilling
• chill
• chilled
• chilling
• chilly
• cold
• coldish
• cool
• cooled
• cooling
• coolish
• cordial
• curing
• diplomatic
• droll
• fixing
• freezing
• frigid
• frosting
• frosty
• frozen
• genial
• gentle
• glacial
• good-humored
• good-natured
• gracious
• healing
• hospitable
• ice-cold
• iced
• icing
• icy
• mending
• merry
• mild
• nippy
• numb
• playful
• polite
• refrigerated
• refrigerating
• remedying
• shivering
• smooth
• snappy
• snowy
• sociable
• sportive
• suave
• subfreezing
• subzero
• supercooling
• unfriendly
• unheated
• urbane
• waggish
• wintery
• wintry

• verb
  1. To burn with hot liquid.
  2. To heat almost to boiling.
• noun
  1. An instance of scalding: a burn.
  2. 3,5-methoxy-4-ethoxyphenethylamine, a psychedelic drug and entheogen of the phenethylamine class.
• adjective
  1. (of a liquid) Hot enough to burn.

• She dropped the cup when the scalding tea splashed on her hand.
• The pot was filled with scalding water ready to boil pasta.
• He gave her a scalding look after the rude comment.
• The child screamed as the scalding bathwater touched his skin.
• A scalding wind blew through the desert, burning everything in its path.

damaging

ultrahot

ablaze

igneous

ignited

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