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BLISTERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blistering mean?
• BLISTERING (noun)
The noun BLISTERING has 1 sense:
1. the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin
Familiarity information: BLISTERING used as a noun is very rare.
• BLISTERING (adjective)
The adjective BLISTERING has 3 senses:
1. harsh or corrosive in tone
2. hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters
3. very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
Familiarity information: BLISTERING used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
blistering; vesication; vesiculation
Hypernyms ("blistering" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Harsh or corrosive in tone
Synonyms:
acerb; acerbic; acid; acrid; bitter; blistering; caustic; sulfurous; sulphurous; virulent; vitriolic
Context example:
a vitriolic critique
Similar:
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters
Synonyms:
blistering; blistery
Context example:
blistering sun
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
Synonyms:
Context example:
a red-hot line drive
Similar:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
Context examples
Signs and symptoms appear early in childhood and include extreme photosensitivity in the sun exposed areas of the skin with blistering and scar formation.
(Hepatoerythropoietic Porphyria, NCI Thesaurus)
A question about whether an individual has or had blistering.
(Have Blistering, NCI Thesaurus)
His face was blistering in the heat, his eyebrows and lashes were singed off, and the heat was becoming unbearable to his feet.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The skin changes evolve from an initial blistering rash, to wart-like lesions, and eventually to hypopigmentation.
(Incontinentia Pigmenti, NCI Thesaurus)
A blistering agent primarily containing sulfur and chlorine groups that alkylates DNA to form DNA crosslinks, causing inhibition of DNA synthesis.
(Mustard Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
Then come the sudden swirl round of the wind, the blistering gale from the south-west, the dragging anchor, the lee shore, and the last battle in the creaming breakers.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Exposure to this substance is corrosive to the eyes, skin and lungs and leads to blindness and blistering of the skin and can cause severe and sometimes fatal respiratory damage.
(Mustard Gas, NCI Thesaurus)
Signs and symptoms include painful cutaneous photosensitivity leading to blistering and scarring of the exposed skin areas, erythrodontia, red discoloration of urine, hemolytic anemia, and splenomegaly.
(Erythropoietic Protoporphyria, NCI Thesaurus)
Blistering and tissue damage caused by certain drugs when they leak out of a vein into the tissue around it.
(Extravasation injury, NCI Dictionary)
The planet's atmosphere is so hot that most molecules are unable to survive on the blistering day side of the planet, where the temperature is 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)
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