adj.

1. Causing a burning sensation, as from contact with hot liquid.
2. Boiling: scalding water.
3. Scorching; searing: scalding sunlight.
4. Harshly critical or denunciatory; scathing: a scalding review of the play.

scaldingly scald'ing·ly adv.

adjective

Marked by much heat: ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, roasting, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid. See hot/cold/lukewarm.

Plunging of pig or poultry carcasses into very hot water to facilitate scraping and dehairing and plucking. Chicken scalding water is 130°F for broilers (larger birds higher) applied for 1 to 2 minutes. Modern pig abattoirs use steam at 144 to 147°F for about 3 minutes. This avoids overheating the carcasses.

IN BRIEF: Burning, so hot as to harm the skin.

Average is like having one foot in ice water and one foot in scalding water - on the average you are comfortable. — Anonymous.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: hot enough to boil
  Synonym: boiling

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