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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 scalding
 燙傷般的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scald v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scalded; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalding.]
 1. To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
 Mine own tears
 Do scald like molten lead.   --Shak.
    Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.   --Cowley.
 2. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 scalding
      adj : marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks
            about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
            [syn: scathing, blistering, vituperative]