blister
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French blestre.
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- Rhymes: -ɪstə(r)
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia blister (plural blisters)
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
- A swelling on a plant.
- (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:
- 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister, a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well [...].
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
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- blister card
- blister pack
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bubble on the skin
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swelling on a plant
bubble on a painted surface
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[edit] Verb
blister (third-person singular simple present blisters, present participle blistering, simple past and past participle blistered)
- To cause blisters to form.
- (transitive) To criticise severely.
- (intransitive) To break out in blisters.
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cause blisters to form
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