Scalding
['skɔːldɪŋ] or ['skɔldɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scald
Typist: Sam
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being scalded, portends that distressing incidents will blot out pleasurable anticipations.
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Examples
- And why should I go on scalding my face like this? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These tinctured the silent bosom of the clouds above them and lit up their ephemeral caves, which seemed thenceforth to become scalding caldrons. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Hasty people drink the nectar of existence scalding hot; I taste it cool as dew. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Scalded or Pasteurized milk saves the lives of scores of babies, because the germs of summer complaint which lurk in poor milk are killed and rendered harmless in the process of scalding. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Eustacia said, while scalding tears trickled from her eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When she took them away, her palms were wet with scalding tears. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Edited by Carmella