blister
IPA: bɫˈɪstɝ
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.
- A swelling on a plant.
- (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
- 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.
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- A cause of annoyance.
- (uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
verb
- (transitive) To raise blisters on.
- (cooking, transitive) To sear after blaching.
- (intransitive) To have a blister form.
- (transitive) To criticise severely.
- (intransitive) To break out in blisters.
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