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descaled

descaled is the simple past and past participle of descale.

Meaning of descale

Verb

descale (third-person singular simple present descales, present participle descaling, simple past and past participle descaled)

  1. To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.
  2. To remove the scales from a fish etc.
    Synonyms:
    scale, unscale

Words formed from descaled

Questions about descaled

What is descaled the simple past and past participle of?
Descaled is the simple past and past participle of descale.

Words near descaled in the dictionary

  1. desc.
  2. descabello
  3. descabellos
  4. descalcified
  5. descale
  6. descaled
  7. descaler
  8. descalers
  9. descales
  10. descaling
  11. descalings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: descaled (page history and authors); descale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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