scalded

past tense of scald

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scalded
Verb
  • By the end of the fight, at least three students were hurt by Clarke and a mirror on the wall was cracked, punched by a student who lacerated his hand, deputies say.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Slow-moving thunderstorms frequently unleash catastrophic downpours over the South Fork burn scar, a region still reeling from two fires that scorched over 15,000 acres and destroyed 1,400 structures.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • My throat was scorched, my tongue was swollen — and the acid would not stop coming.
    Jack Korngold, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The juice is extracted, boiled, cleaned of impurities, and crystallized.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The recipe calls for the watery stalks to be boiled in meat broth and served chilled, accompanied with ketchup and anchovies.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Turnips can be roasted with other root vegetables to bring out their sweetness or blended into mashed potatoes to add a peppery bite.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Terri, a 71-year-old cosmetic dentist, roasted Mel through her puppet, a sassy lady named Carly.
    Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But there were long years during which my book simmered on the back burner or even cooled on a pantry shelf.
    Megan Marshall September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But beneath the roar of applause, a quieter tension simmered.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kerzka and the others did their best to comfort them, to bandage small wounds; the most critically injured were already at the hospital.
    Georgea Kovanis, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • When Odegaard came off injured in the first half against Leeds and then Nottingham Forest, Arteta opted to replace him with Ethan Nwaneri, who impressed in both games.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Artemis 2 was initially expected to launch this year, but NASA pushed the mission into 2026 after the Artemis 1 Orion capsule's heat shield charred more severely than expected during its reentry to Earth's atmosphere.
    Tariq Malik, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, which charred about a 10-by-10-foot patch of vegetation between the northbound and southbound lanes of South Mission Road near Airpark Road, Choi said.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Initially, Alex Pou worked closely with a Coconut Grove youth-football team, known as the Redskins, whose players were often poached by affluent youth-football leagues from outside the area.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • More than 20 researchers, including Rishabh Agarwal, who was poached by Meta from DeepMind just a few months ago, have left their work at major AI companies to join the startup focused on building AI that accelerates real-world scientific discovery in physics, chemistry, and materials science.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Scalded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalded. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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