blister
Example Sentences
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Our critic praised it as a “blistering Broadway revival.”
Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is a painful rash with blisters that develops when the virus that causes chickenpox, varicella zoster, becomes active again later in life.
From Science Daily
Patients experience severe pain, burning and blistering when they spend even a few minutes in the sun, even with sunscreen.
The quarterly reading was a sharp slowdown from the summer’s blistering 4.4% rate.
Despite their blistering form, Detroit -- wholly reconstructed after finishing rock-bottom of the Eastern Conference just two years ago -- are still few pundits' top pick to win the title.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.