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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
scald .
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Examples
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So that the skins of both of these fruits may be easily removed, they must be scalded, which is an operation that corresponds to blanching in vegetable canning.
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But I think the campaign finance investigations and all the hits he took in '97 and' 98 with the Hsi Lai Temple and the West Wing phone calls, I think he really felt kind of scalded by that.
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In many instances, where there is either diarrhoea or dysentery present, without other prominent symptoms, I have found the mere use of cooked milk (merely "scalded," as women usually term it -- being heated to the boiling point without permitting it to boil), taken as food alone, to be the only remedy required.
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany
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They travelled very fast, the season was extremely wet, and they did not dare to kindle fires for fear of the Indians; in consequence they suffered torments from cold, hunger, and especially from "scalded" feet.
The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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If the animal retains an appetite, a soft diet is preferable, such as scalded oats, bran mashes, and grass, if in season.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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If constipation exists, overcome it by an allowance of laxative diet, such as scalded oats, bran, and linseed mashes; also, grass, if in season.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Port River dolphins 'scalded' A MYSTERIOUS skin "affliction" is eating away the flanks of two Port River's dolphins - Wave and her calf Tallula - and experts fear it was caused by hot water or chemicals.
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[Charles] Lewis [of the Center for Public Integrity] said the Keating scandal "scalded"
PERRspectives 2010
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[Charles] Lewis [of the Center for Public Integrity] said the Keating scandal "scalded"
PERRspectives 2010
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"Port River dolphins 'scalded'" 13/4/2010 Adelaide Now
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