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noun | verb blisterblister1 /ˈblɪstɚ/ noun [countable] ETYMOLOGYblister1Origin: 1300-1400 Old French blestre, blostre swelling on the skin, from Middle Dutch bluyster blister THESAURUScolored area► mark a small area of darker or lighter color on a plain surface such as a person’s skin or an animal’s fur: The kitten is mainly white with black marks on her back. ► bruise a purple or brown mark on your skin that you get because you have fallen or been hit: How did you get that bruise on your arm? ► freckle one of several small light brown marks on someone’s skin: A little red-headed boy with freckles was running around. ► mole a small usually brown mark on the skin that is often slightly higher than the skin around it: Jim has several moles on his back. ► scar a permanent mark on your skin, caused by a cut or by something that burns you: He still had a scar where he had been cut. ► pimple a small raised red mark or lump on your skin that teenagers often have: She had a big red pimple on her nose. ► wart a small hard raised mark on your skin caused by a virus (=a living thing that causes an infectious illness): The doctor froze a wart off my finger. ► blister a small area of skin that is swollen and full of liquid because it has been rubbed or burned: The sunburn was so bad that she had blisters on her shoulders. ► blemish formal a mark on your skin that spoils its appearance: She used makeup to hide the blemishes on her face. 1medicine a swelling on your skin containing clear liquid, caused for example by a burn or continuous rubbing: New shoes always give me blisters.► see thesaurus at mark22a swelling on the surface of metal, rubber, painted wood, etc. [Origin: 1300–1400 Old French blestre, blostre swelling on the skin, from Middle Dutch bluyster blister] noun | verb blisterblister2 verb VERB TABLEblister |
Present | I, you, we, they | blister | | he, she, it | blisters | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | blistered | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have blistered | | he, she, it | has blistered | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had blistered | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will blister | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have blistered |
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Present | I | am blistering | | he, she, it | is blistering | | you, we, they | are blistering | Past | I, he, she, it | was blistering | | you, we, they | were blistering | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been blistering | | he, she, it | has been blistering | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been blistering | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be blistering | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been blistering |
1[intransitive, transitive] to develop blisters or make blisters form: The paint will blister in the heat.2[transitive] to angrily criticize someone: Brown blistered his players for their poor performance.—blistered adjective: blistered fingers |