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BLISTERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin
Synonyms:
blistering; vesication; vesiculation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("blistering" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
Example:
a red-hot line drive
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters
Example:
blistering sun
Synonyms:
blistering; blistery
Classified under:
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:
Harsh or corrosive in tone
Example:
a vitriolic critique
Synonyms:
acerb; acerbic; acid; acrid; bitter; blistering; caustic; sulfurous; sulphurous; virulent; vitriolic
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb blister
Context examples:
It results in cutaneous photosensitivity leading to blistering and scarring of the exposed skin areas.
(Erythropoietic Porphyria, NCI Thesaurus)
The white dwarf is small and, at a blistering 28 000 degrees Celsius (five times the Sun's temperature), extremely hot.
(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)
She had blistering rashes on her fingers, toes, ears, nose, and cheeks, and she’d lost parts of her fingers to the disease.
(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a blistering hot planet outside our solar system where it "snows" sunscreen.
(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)
A chronic blistering disease with predilection for mucous membranes and less frequently the skin, and with a tendency to scarring.
(Benign Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Burns can cause swelling, blistering, scarring and, in serious cases, shock and even death.
(Burns, NIH: National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
Group of chronic blistering diseases characterized histologically by acantholysis and blister formation within the epidermis.
(Pemphigus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Inhalation exposure to its vapors is highly irritating to the eyes and lungs and may cause damage to the liver, kidney, heart and central nervous system, while dermal contact causes severe blistering.
(Dimethyl Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)
A chronic and relatively benign subepidermal blistering disease usually of the elderly and without histopathologic acantholysis.
(Pemphigoid, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A rare autoimmune blistering skin disorder that resembles pemphigus but is histologically and clinically distinguishable by lack of evidence of acantholysis and a generally benign course.
(Pemphigoid, NCI Thesaurus)
