“blisters” is a form of
blister
UK /ˈblɪstə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈblɪstɚ/ noun, verb
Forms blisters blistering blistered
- noun 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.
- noun A swelling on a plant.
- noun (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
- noun A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- noun (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.
- noun A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities. “blister card”
- noun A cause of annoyance.
- noun (uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
- verb (transitive) To raise blisters on. “a chemical agent that blisters the skin”
- verb (cooking, transitive) To sear after blaching.
- verb (intransitive) To have a blister form.
- verb (transitive) To criticise severely.
- verb (intransitive) To break out in blisters.
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
- noun Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.
- verb To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. Let my tongue blister. Shak.
- verb To raise a blister or blisters upon.
Etymology [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blow to eject wind.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “blister”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details