blister

1. 1.

   get blistered

   “Her feet blistered during the long hike”

   Synonymsvesicate

   Broaderswell
2. 2.

   subject to harsh criticism

   “The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday”

   “the professor scaled the students”

   “your invectives scorched the community”

   Synonymsscaldwhip

   Broaderattack
3. 3.

   cause blisters to form on

   “the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet”

   Broaderchange

Other forms of blister

plural

blisters·

past tense

blisterred·

present participle

blisterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blister

What does blister mean?

blister means "a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blister?

blister has 2 syllables: blis-ter. The stress falls on "blis". In IPA it is /ˈblɪstɚ/.

What is another word for blister?

Close synonyms include bulla, bleb, vesicate, scald, whip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blister a common word?

blister is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.