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scald has 2 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
treat with boiling water
“scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for scald come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
heat to the boiling point
“scald the milk”
burn with a hot liquid or steam
“She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out”