▸ noun: A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection. ▸ noun: A swelling on a plant. ▸ noun: (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine. ▸ noun: A bubble, as on a painted surface. ▸ noun: (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate. ▸ noun: A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities. ▸ noun: A cause of annoyance. ▸ noun: (uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface. ▸ verb: (transitive) To raise blisters on. ▸ verb: (cooking, transitive) To sear after blaching. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To have a blister form. ▸ verb: (transitive) To criticise severely. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To break out in blisters.
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