scald
verb (used with object)
to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
had scalded
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past perfectof scald.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Later, after he had scalded, plucked and gutted the bird and packed the meat into a plastic bag to take back to the city, Mr. Wayne walked outside and exhaled.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2010
Steam from an exploding locomotive had scalded Fireman Frank Mihlan of the Erie Railroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had to push a chair before her as she walked, for she had scalded her foot quite badly the week before, and it was now all swathed in bandages.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
For the contents of the pot were boiling hot and he had scalded his throat most painfully.
From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Evelyn Raymond
Monday, April 6.—This evening Fred Swain came in to say his little baby brother had scalded his foot and to ask for something to put on it.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow
