blister

5 definitions • 4 examples

a painful swelling on the skin that contains liquid, caused usually by continuous rubbing, especially on your foot, or by burning:

New shoes always give me blisters.

a hollow rounded swelling that appears on a surface

to get blisters or cause blisters:

The sun blistered the paintwork.

I burned my shoulders over the weekend and they're starting to blister.

a painful swelling on the skin, often filled with a watery liquid, caused by a burn or by rubbing against something:

I got blisters from my new shoes.

A blister is also a raised place on a painted surface.