blister
- noun
- /ˈblɪstər/
- After hiking for hours, I noticed a painful blister forming on my heel.
- blisters on the skin
- friction blisters
- fluid-filled blisters
He would never have worse blisters than he did on that trip.
- He would never have worse blisters than he did on that trip.
- If you are someone that that does get blisters when working with with garden tools.
- But I had the worst blisters of my life.
- It was a, it was a line of tiny little fluid filled blisters that were kind of red.
- I'm about to apply some blister plasters.
- If you burned yourself and it blistered, what's in the blister?
- And then knee was swallowed up, ankle was swelled up and shins were flared, blisters everywhere.
- Some blister plasters because you definitely don't want to get caught caught short in the airport with blisters like or travelling to be honest.
- Eventually I will learn that if you don't wear socks and then walk around all day, you will get blisters occasionally.
- And sometimes they'll care for your blisters, take an hour out of their day just to tend to your feet and expecting nothing in return.
- Have a open blister on my thumb because mid migraine the other day I poured boiling hot water on my hand trying to heat up my heat pack.
- Can we use the knife on the candles or the blister pack?
Examples
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You will get hurt or have a blister on your foot within four kilometers.
Academic text (2013) -
Eventually I will learn that if you don't wear socks and then walk around all day, you will get blisters occasionally.
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But I had the worst blisters of my life.
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I have a blister bigger than the pancake I had for breakfast.
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Is this blister bothering you?
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I'm getting blisters on my feet.
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I'm getting blisters on my fingers.
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Wilson pulled the dead skin back from the blister, creating a small red-rimmed sore.
Fiction book (1990) -
She'd have blisters the size of pancakes.
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The boots are chef's kiss, but the blisters that they gave me are not.
Synonyms
A small blister on the skin or a cell that holds fluid
A raised spot on the skin filled with blood from rubbing or hitting
A small painful sore on the lip or face caused by the herpes virus
A painful swollen sore on the skin often caused by cold or injury
A small raised spot on the skin filled with clear fluid after rubbing or a burn
A large blister filled with clear fluid on the skin
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A disease of pine trees that makes blisters and dead patches on the bark, caused by a fungus
- Specialized
A plant disease that makes blister-like spots on leaves and shoots, often in tea plants or pine trees
- Specialized
A form of impure copper with a black, bumpy surface caused by trapped gas when it is melted
- Specialized
A disease caused by a fungus that makes blisters on the bark and weakens white pine trees
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blister comes from the idea of a small 'bubble' that rises on the skin or on a surface, like a tiny balloon of fluid under the skin. So a blister is a raised swelling or bubble that often holds fluid.