BLISTERING

blistering, hot, red-hot

(adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed; “a hot sports car”; “a blistering pace”; “got off to a hot start”; “in hot pursuit”; “a red-hot line drive”

blistering, blistery

(adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters; “blistering sun”

acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic

(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone; “an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose”; “a barrage of acid comments”; “her acrid remarks make her many enemies”; “bitter words”; “blistering criticism”; “caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics”; “a sulfurous denunciation”; “a vitriolic critique”

vesiculation, vesication, blistering

(noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

blistering

present participle of blister

Adjective

blistering (comparative more blistering, superlative most blistering)

Causing blisters

Very hot

Harsh or corrosive

Very aggressive

Very fast

Noun

blistering (plural blisterings)

(medicine, veterinary) The practice of forming blisters on the skin, to promote blood flow and aid healing.

Source: Wiktionary

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BLISTER

Blis"ter, n. Etym: [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blow to eject wind.]

1. A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

2. Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis.

– Blister fly, a blister beetle.

– Blister plaster, a plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies.

– Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel.

– Blood blister. See under Blood.

Blis"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blistered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blistering.]

Definition: To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. Let my tongue blister. Shak.

Blis"ter, v. t.

1. To raise a blister or blisters upon. My hands were blistered. Franklin.

2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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