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Blistering   /blˈɪstərɪŋ/   Listen
Blistering

adjective
1.
Harsh or corrosive in tone.  Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic.  "A barrage of acid comments" , "Her acrid remarks make her many enemies" , "Bitter words" , "Blistering criticism" , "Caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics" , "A sulfurous denunciation" , "A vitriolic critique"
2.
Hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters.  Synonym: blistery.
3.
Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed.  Synonyms: hot, red-hot.  "A blistering pace" , "Got off to a hot start" , "In hot pursuit" , "A red-hot line drive"
noun
1.
The formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin.  Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation.


Blister

verb
(past & past part. blistered; pres. part. blistering)
1.
Get blistered.  Synonym: vesicate.
2.
Subject to harsh criticism.  Synonyms: scald, whip.  "The professor scaled the students" , "Your invectives scorched the community"
3.
Cause blisters to form on.



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"Blistering" Quotes from Famous Books



... it safely up," he articulated, out of breath from her eagerness. The bow swept into the onward current, it moved more swiftly, and then sluggishly settled against the bottom. Painted on its blistering white side was a name, "Veronica," and "Ten persons." There was a slight movement at the rail, and a sharp unreasoning ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer
... the bill-hook for a moment and examined the palm of her right hand, which, unlike the other, was ungloved, and showed little hardness or roughness about it. The palm was red and blistering, as if this present occupation were not frequent enough with her to subdue it to what it worked in. As with so many right hands born to manual labor, there was nothing in its fundamental shape to bear out the physiological ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... the spring-box fell heavily upon the Lady of Shalott's strained eyes, across the glass. Even the gray-haired waves ceased running up and down and throwing back their hands before her; they sat still, in heaps upon a blistering beach, and gasped for breath. The Lady of Shalott herself gasped sometimes, ...
— Stories of Childhood • Various
... tongue is blistering," she said with great effort to still the raging tumult within her. "Yet I would not ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... led the way, Mart following hastily. Getting their shoes wet mattered little, for they would dry again in five minutes of walking in the blistering sand, and when they finally stood on the coral reef they soon had torn half a dozen good-sized oysters from their perch and waded ...
— The Pirate Shark • Elliott Whitney


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