How to pronounce “blister”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.
• A swelling on a plant.
• (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
• A bubble, as on a painted surface.
• (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
• A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
• A cause of annoyance.
• (uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To raise blisters on.
• (cooking, transitive) To sear after blaching.
• (intransitive) To have a blister form.
• (transitive) To criticise severely.
• (intransitive) To break out in blisters.

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