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🤒 A skin disease 🤒 To cause rash
to tetter

to tetter

9.9
To infect the skin and cause itching and blisters
  • verb
  • Archaic
translation icon : infectar
  • If left untreated, the infection could tetter the skin and cause severe discomfort.

Examples

  • The contaminated dye would often tetter workers' hands with painful rashes.

  • He was worried that the infection might tetter again.

  • Old remedies were believed to tetter the skin rather than cure the disease.

  • The rash began to tetter after a few days.

  • The contaminated dye would often tetter workers' hands, leading to painful rashes and itching.

  • If left untreated, the infection could tetter the skin, causing severe discomfort and irritation.

  • Old remedies, rather than curing the ailment, often resulted in diseases that would tetter the skin.

Synonyms

to bring out in a rash
vsto tetter
6.2

Make red, itchy spots appear on the skin

is an infectious skin disease that produces itching and eruptions

How Severe

to tetter
  • Archaic
9.9
to infect
466 2.6
to inflame
  • Specialized
13 5.3
to irritate
17 3.4

Surface Forms

tetter infinitive
tettered past
tettered past participle
tettering present participle
tets third person singular

Etymology

Tetter as a verb comes from the same old name for the skin trouble and means 'to affect the skin with those itchy sores or patches'. So, to tetter someone is to cause their skin to break out with that condition.