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antiscald

antiscald adjective: designed to prevent scalding.

Adjective

antiscald (not comparable)

  1. Designed to prevent scalding.
    • The antiscald faucet was linked to a thermostat.

Origin of antiscald

From anti- + scald.

Questions about antiscald

What does antiscald mean?
Antiscald means designed to prevent scalding.
What part of speech is antiscald?
Antiscald is an adjective.

Words near antiscald in the dictionary

  1. antiscab
  2. antiscabies
  3. antiscabious
  4. antiscalant
  5. antiscalants
  6. antiscald
  7. antiscale
  8. antiscalent
  9. antiscalents
  10. antiscaling
  11. antiscalping

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