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1. (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid, caused by rubbing or friction
   "new shoes often give me blisters";
   - bulla, bleb
    
2. A flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint)
    
3. (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

1. Get blistered
   "Her feet blistered during the long hike";
   - vesicate
    
2. Subject to harsh criticism
   "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday";
   - scald, whip [informal], scorch
    
3. Cause blisters to form on
   "the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet"

Derived forms: blistering, blisters, blistered

Type of: alter, assail, assault, attack, change, cyst, defect, enation, fault, flaw, intumesce, lash out, modify, plant process, puff, round, snipe, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce, vesicle

Encyclopedia: Blister