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.
Part of speech: 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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is blister a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, blister is tagged as verb.
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