Clues for the word "SCALD"
We've had 85 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 290 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 12, 2026.
Definition of scald
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
- n. - A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
- a. - Affected with the scab; scabby.
- a. - Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
- n. - Scurf on the head. See Scall.
- n. - One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
Referring Clues
- Burn with hot water
- Almost boil
- Heat to just short of boiling
- Blast
- Spill hot coffee on
- Burn
- Dump hot coffee on
- Throw hot water on
- Burn with hot liquid
- Hot coffee hazard
- Burn, in a way
- Burn with steam
- Bring to a near boil
- Plunge into boiling water
- Hurt with hot water
- Burn with a hot liquid
- Parboil
- Don't quite boil
- Get into hot water, maybe
- Nearly boil
- Blanch
- Put in hot water, maybe
- Burn badly
- Really burn
- Burn but good
- Recipe direction
- Boil
- Prepare milk, perhaps
- Bring almost to a boil
- Burn with water
- Sterilize with boiling water
- Hot liquid burn
- Get into hot water, possibly
- Spill coffee on
- Kitchen mishap
- Get steamed?
- Heat to near boiling
- Get into hot water, in a way
- A kind of burn
- Burn with boiling water
- Burn, in the tub
- Bring close to boiling
- Bring close to simmering
- Burn, as milk
- Burn with liquid
- Hot tea hazard
- Burn with coffee
- Stop short of boiling
- Bring to a near-boil
- What hot coffee may do
- Ironing injury
- Burn caused by hot liquid
- Scorch
- Burn, as with hot coffee
- Spill hot coffee on, say
- Injure with steam
- What overly hot bath water will do
- Injure with hot liquid
- Burn severely
- Make too hot and wet
- Spill hot water on, perhaps
- Barista injury
- Steam burn
- Hot water burn
- Burn remix of Al Stewart's first CD
- Burn peeled off in layers with no end of heartache
- Spill hot coffee on, perhaps
- Blanch, as almonds
- Spill coffee on, maybe
- Injure with hot liquid or steam
- Cookbook direction
- Heat milk, in recipes
- Hot-water hazard
- Burn with hot coffee
- Burn with hot liquid or steam
- Almost bring to a boil
- Put in hot water, perhaps
- Spill hot soup on, say
- Make hot and wet
- Accidentally spill hot coffee on
- Heat to nearly boiling, as milk
- Get into hot water?
- Heat almost to the point of boiling
- Too-hot bathwater will do this
- Prep, as milk for custard
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 12, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 05, 2026
- LA Times - March 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 20, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 16, 2025
- Daily American - November 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 05, 2025
- LA Times - July 22, 2025
- LA Times - July 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 10, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 30, 2025
- Daily American - April 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 12, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 23, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 29, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 27, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2024
- Daily American - November 24, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 12, 2024
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