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Definition: Blistered |
BlisteredAdjective1. (of skin) having blisters (swellings containing watery fluid) caused by burning or irritation; "escaped from the fire with only a blistered hand". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blistered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Crosswords: Blistered |
| English words defined with "blistered": blister, blister copper, bullate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blistered": ASSEMBLY INSPECTOR ♦ Epidermolysis Bullosa Dystrophica. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Recording angles for Station West Offset Getting burned from sun and blistered from rock Party off of WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Blistered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 41.67% of the time. "Blistered" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 41.67% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 31.25% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.92% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "blistered": blistered steel. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "blistered": paint-blistered, sun-blistered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blistered butt | 68 |
blistered bottom | 8 |
blistered finger | 7 |
blistered | 7 |
ass blistered | 6 |
blistered bluegrass finger | 3 |
blistered butt gallery spanking | 3 |
blistered butts.com | 3 |
blistered foot | 2 |
blistered sunburn | 2 |
blistered skin sunburn swollen treatment | 2 |
blistered bluegrass festival finger | 2 |
blistered butt red | 2 |
blistered lip | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blistered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 起水泡 (blistering). (various references) | |
Danish | uden blærer (blister-free, not blistered), graden af korrosion bestemmes ved vejning foer og efter gloedeskallen er skallet af (the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off), folie med blaerer (blistered foil). (various references) | |
Dutch | blisterkoper (blistered copper), bepaling van de corrosie door weging voor en na afschilfering van het gevormde oxide (the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off), vrij van holten (blister-free, not blistered, without cavities), vrij van blazen (blister-free, not blistered), oppervlak met veel bellen (blistered surface), folie met blaasjes (blistered foil). (various references) | |
Finnish | rakkulaton (blister-free, not blistered), rakkoinen pinta (blistered surface), kuplaton (blister-free, not blistered), hilseily (chipping, desquamation, exfoliation, flaking, peeling, scaling, the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off), hänen kätensä olivat rakoilla (his hands were blistered). (various references) | |
French | bouillons de surface (blistered surface), sans soufflures (blister-free, not blistered), feuille avec soufflures (blistered foil), cuivre blister (blister-copper, blistered copper), cuivre ampoulé (blister-copper, blistered copper), cuivre à soufflures (blister-copper, blistered copper), évaluation de la corrosion par pesées avant et après desquamation des oxydes formés (the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off). (various references) | |
German | Blasen hervorgerufen. (various references) | |
Greek | φουσκαλιασμένο αλουμινόφυλλο (blistered foil), άνευ φυσαλλίδων (blister-free, not blistered), ο βαθμός της διάβρωσης προσδιορίζεται με τη μέτρηση βάρους πριν και μετά από την απολέπιση των οξειδίων που έχουν σχηματισθεί (the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off), Eπιφανειακές φυσσαλίδες (blistered surface). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hólyagos sarok (blistered heel), felhólyagzott sarok (blistered heel). (various references) | |
Indonesian | melecet (become blistered, chafed, scratched (a paint job). (various references) | |
Italian | valutazione della corrosione a peso prima e dopo la squamatura degli ossidi formatisi (the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off), superficie bulicosa (blistered surface), rame a soffiature (blister-copper, blistered copper), rame "blister" (blister-copper, blistered copper), foglio di alluminio con borse (blistered foil), esente da soffiatura (blister-free, not blistered). (various references) | |
Korean | 물집이 생기는. (various references) | |
Manx | troggit (bred, built, contracted, elevated, lifted, lofted, raised, reared, trained), bolgit (bloated, dilated, enlarged, filled, parched). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isteredblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | superfície com bolhas (blistered surface), folha com ampolas (blistered foil). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãşicat, cu bãşici. (various references) | |
Spanish | burbujas de superficie (blistered surface), valoración gravimétrica de la corrosión antes y después de la exfoliación de productos de corrosión (the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off), sin sopladuras (blister-free, not blistered), hoja con sopladuras (blistered foil). (various references) | |
Swedish | blåsig yta (blistered surface), blåsfri (not blistered). (various references) | |
Turkish | kabarcıklı (beady, bubbly, papillary, vesicular). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Blistered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blistene, Blisteze, blootered, Buisseret, flistered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blistered" (pronounced bli"sterd) |
| 4 | -s t er d | administered, bastard, bolstered, bustard, cloistered, clustered, custard, festered, filibustered, flustered, fostered, mastered, mustard, mustered, pestered, plastered, registered, sequestered, unregistered, upholstered. |
| 3 | -t er d | altered, bantered, bartered, battered, bettered, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cluttered, countered, cratered, lettered, littered, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, fettered, filtered, flattered, fluttered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, martyred, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, muttered, neutered, pattered, petard, petered, reentered, scattered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-i-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bestride, bistered, bristled, driblets, relisted. | |
-2 letters: beliers, belters, bestrid, betides, bilsted, bistred, blister, bridles, bristle, derbies, diester, dieters, driblet, edibles, leister, reedits, resiled, resited, retiled, retiles, riblets, sterile, trebled, trebles. | |
-3 letters: bedels, bedsit, belied, belier, belies, belted, belter, berets, beside, bested, bestir, betels, betide, betise, biders, bidets, bields, birled, birles, bister, bistre, biters. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-i-l-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: deliberates. | |
+3 letters: destructible, detribalizes, disreputable, filibustered, restabilized. | |
+4 letters: bewilderments, credibilities, defibrillates, deliberations, discreditable, erodibilities, readabilities, reestablished, timberdoodles. | |
+5 letters: creditableness, deliberateness, desirabilities, disequilibrate, disrespectable, drapeabilities, driveabilities, indemonstrable, indestructible, preestablished, rediscountable, reducibilities, unpredictables. | |
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