Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To blister or become blistered.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To raise vesicles, blisters, or little bladders on; inflame and separate the cuticle of; blister.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Med.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
blister
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb get blistered
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin vēsīcāre, vēsīcāt-, from Latin vēsīca, bladder, blister.]
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When the chilblains vesicate, ulcerate or slough, it is better to omit the aconite and apply the other components of the liniment without it.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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