Close
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A close inspection of the object revealed it to be a scalding hot pressurized oxygen tank.
Source: Oh Crap / Real Life - A hospital worker was killed in 2004 when the door to the autoclave she was doing maintenance on happened to close by accident, activating the autoclave and scalding the worker to death.
Source: Dice Roll Death -
Case in point: after Maki, her tiny bodyguard and close friend, tried to publicly expose Akeno as a mermaid, Sun gave her a verbal scalding that left Maki genuinely terrified.
Source: Beware The Nice Ones / Anime
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Scalding and Close. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/close/scalding
Close & Scalding. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/close/scalding>.
Scalding or Close. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/close/scalding.
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