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Blister vs Irritate - What's the difference?

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Blister is a related term of irritate.


As verbs the difference between blister and irritate

is that blister is to cause blisters to form while irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.

As a noun blister

is a small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.

blister

English

Noun

(wikipedia blister) (en noun)
  • A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
  • * Grainger
  • Painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
  • A swelling on a plant.
  • (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
  • (Dunglison)
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.168:
  • 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister , a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well [...].
  • A bubble, as on a painted surface.
  • (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
  • A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities
  • blister card
    blister pack

    Synonyms

    * bleb

    Derived terms

    * blister pack

    Verb

  • To cause blisters to form.
  • *
  • To criticise severely.
  • To break out in blisters.
  • Derived terms

    * blistery * blood blister

    Synonyms

    * vesicate

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    irritate

    English

    Verb

    (irritat)
  • (lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • (lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
  • (lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
  • (lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
  • (lb) To render null and void.
  • :(Archbishop Bramhall)
  • Synonyms

    * provoke * rile

    Antonyms

    * please

    See also

    * exasperate * peeve * disturb English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs ----