Definition of Blister

Blister

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.

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.

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.

To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.

To raise a blister or blisters upon.

To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.

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Blister Quotations

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
John Millington Synge

And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times.
Mary Tyler Moore

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.
Edwin A. Robinson

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Blister Translations

blister in Dutch is blaar
blister in German is Blase, Blase, Brandblase
blister in Italian is soffio
blister in Norwegian is blemme
blister in Portuguese is bolha

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