blister

Universal Words noun, verb noun a swelling on the surface of the skin that is filled with liquid and is caused, for example, by rubbing or burning: These shoes have given me blisters on my heels. verb 1 to form blisters; to make sth form blisters: [V] His skin was beginning to blister. * [VN] Her face had been blistered by the sun. 2 [V, VN] when a surface blisters or sth blisters it, it swells and cracks blistered adjective: cracked and blistered skin * blistered paintwork