blister.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
A bubble, as on a painted surface.
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.
A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
blister card
blister pack
A cause of annoyance.
A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).
To raise blisters on.
a chemical agent that blisters the skin
To sear after blaching.
To have a blister form.
To criticise severely.
To break out in blisters.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).
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