Cold
Cold adjective - Having a low or subnormal temperature.
Usage example: an unusually cold spring that was followed by a sweltering summer
Scalding
Scalding adjective - Having a notably high temperature.
Usage example: the scalding water of a geyser
Both words in one sentence
- Now, when he is splashed with cold water, he turns into a 12-year-old girl that never ages, and the only way for him to turn back is through painfully scalding hot water.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Ranma ½ -
He also is repeatedly whipped by Franziska and has scalding hot (and one cold) coffee thrown on him by Godot, though both of these are Played for Laughs.
- The only biological oddity about them is that they can survive scalding temperatures, and will freeze to death in even mildly cold weather without the help of their allomantic technology.
Source: Literature / Bands Of Mourning
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