scald
verb/iʃkaɫˈdaɾ/medium
es·cal·dar
Definitions
1To burn or injure with hot liquid or steam.
Be careful not to scald yourself with the boiling water.
She scalded the tomatoes to peel them more easily.
Common collocations
scald the waterscald tomatoesscald skin
Etymology
Do latim 'excaldare', de 'ex-' (intensivo) + 'calidus' (quente).