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How to pronounce blister in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bleb, bulla
Type of vesicle, cyst
Has types blood blister, pustule, water blister
Derivation blistery
Type Words
Synonyms scald, whip
Type of snipe, round, lash out, attack, assault, assail


The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday.
Type Words
Synonyms vesicate
Type of intumesce, swell, tumesce, tumefy, swell up


Her feet blistered during the long hike.
Type Words
Type of defect, flaw, fault
Type Words
Type of plant process, enation
Type Words
Type of modify, alter, change
Verb group vesicate


the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet.

Examples of blister

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Ostman shares the messiness and the failures and the blister-burnished triumphs.
From the thenewstribune.com
Josh Beckett used that years ago to help him deal with a finger blister problem.
From the denverpost.com
Char the skins of the chiles, turning them as they blister and blacken all over.
From the denverpost.com
Beauchamp showed the doc his swollen, discolored big toe with a bloated blister.
From the sacbee.com
The Company has now produced high-purity blister copper as well as cobalt matte.
From the hemscott.com
There are whispers that Lincecum is dealing with a blister on his pitching hand.
From the denverpost.com
The projection lights came in a cardboard blister pack with a purple background.
From the timesunion.com
Wilson, however, left in the seventh inning with a blister on his pitching hand.
From the kentucky.com
Wood was placed on the disabled list with a blister, so Perez will close for now.
From the newsday.com
More examples
  • Get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike"
  • A flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint)
  • (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin
  • Subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community"
  • (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
  • (blistering) acerb: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; ...
  • A blister is a small pocket of fluid within the upper layers of the skin, typically caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure or infection. Most blisters are filled with a clear fluid called serum or plasmahttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3358612? ...
  • Blister is a Norwegian rock band consisting of Hu00E5vard Hernes, Lars Lundevall, Aslak Du00F8rum, Atle Karlsen and Rune Lindstru00F8m. They have recorded one album with the name Brand New Antiques in 2003
  • Peter Edward Clarke (born 21 August 1957, St Helens), known professionally as Budgie, is an English drummer. His first recording was with The Slits in 1979. He then became the drummer of the influential band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1979u201396) and the drum-and-voice duo The Creatures (1981u20132004)...