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scald
noun
1 scald
A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
Roget 597:
poetry,
poetics,
poesy,
Muse,
Calliope,
tuneful Nine,
Parnassus,
Helicon†,
Pierides,
Pierian spring.
versification,
rhyming,
making verses;
prosody,
orthometry†.
poem;
epic,
epic poem;
epopee†,
epopoea,
ode,
epode†,
idyl,
lyric,
eclogue,
pastoral,
bucolic,
dithyramb,
anacreontic†,
sonnet,
roundelay,
rondeau [Fr.],
rondo,
madrigal,
canzonet†,
cento†,
monody [Slang],
elegy;
amoebaeum,
ghazal†,
palinode.
dramatic poetry,
lyric poetry;
opera;
posy,
anthology;
disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.],
ballad,
lay;
love song,
drinking song,
war song,
sea song;
lullaby;
music
etc.
415;
nursery rhymes.
[Bad poetry]
doggerel,
Hudibrastic verse†,
prose run mad;
macaronics†;
macaronic verse†,
leonine verse;
runes.
canto,
stanza,
distich,
verse,
line,
couplet,
triplet,
quatrain;
strophe,
antistrophe†.
verse,
rhyme,
assonance,
crambo†,
meter,
measure,
foot,
numbers,
strain,
rhythm;
accentuation
etc.
(voice)
580;
dactyl,
spondee,
trochee,
anapest
&c.;
hexameter,
pentameter;
Alexandrine;
anacrusis†,
antispast†,
blank verse,
ictus.
elegiacs
etc.
adj.;
elegiac verse,
elegaic meter,
elegaic poetry.
poet,
poet laureate;
laureate;
bard,
lyrist†,
scald,
skald†,
troubadour,
trouvere [Fr.];
minstrel;
minnesinger,
meistersinger [G.];
improvisatore†;
versifier,
sonneteer;
rhymer,
rhymist†,
rhymester;
ballad monger,
runer†;
poetaster;
genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].
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Polish: oparzelina
2 scald
The act of burning with steam or hot water.
verb
1 scald
Subject to harsh criticism.
synonyms: blister, whip.
Roget 384:
heat,
warm,
chafe,
stive†,
foment;
make hot
etc.
382;
sun oneself,
sunbathe.
go up in flames,
burn to the ground
(flame)
382.
fire;
set fire to,
set on fire;
kindle,
enkindle,
light,
ignite,
strike a light;
apply the match to,
apply the torch to;
rekindle,
relume†;
fan the flame,
add fuel to the flame;
poke the fire,
stir the fire,
blow the fire;
make a bonfire of.
melt,
thaw,
fuse;
liquefy
etc.
335.
burn,
inflame,
roast,
toast,
fry,
grill,
singe,
parch,
bake,
torrefy†,
scorch;
brand,
cauterize,
sear,
burn in;
corrode,
char,
calcine,
incinerate;
smelt,
scorify†;
reduce to ashes;
burn to a cinder;
commit to the flames,
consign to the flames.
boil,
digest,
stew,
cook,
seethe,
scald,
parboil,
simmer;
do to rags.
take fire,
catch fire;
blaze
etc.
(flame)
382.
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2 scald
Treat with boiling water.
3 scald
Heat to the boiling point.
4 scald
Burn with a hot liquid or steam.
Moby thesaurus: abrade, abrasion, bake, bark, be in heat, blaze, blemish, bloody, bloom, boil, brand, break, broil, burn, chafe, check, chip, choke, claw, combust, concussion, cook, crack, crackle, craze, cut, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flash burn, flicker, flush, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fry, gall, gash, gasp, glow, hurt, incandesce, incise, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mincemeat of, mat burn, maul, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, pant, parch, pierce, puncture, radiate heat, rend, rent, rip, roast, run, rupture, savage, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, sear, second-degree burn, seethe, shimmer with heat, simmer, singe, skin, slash, slit, smolder, smother, sore, spark, sprain, stab, stab wound, steam, stew, stick, stifle, strain, suffocate, sunburn, sunscald, sweat, swelter, tear, third-degree burn, toast, trauma, traumatize, windburn, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench ... show more.
scalding
Moby thesaurus: ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, ebullient, feverish, fiery, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm, parching, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scorching, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, white-hot ... show more.
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