Definition of Blister

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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

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

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.
J. M. Synge

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

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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