Antonyms for blistered
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : blis-ter |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblɪs tər |
- abridge
- add to
- agree
- aid
- allow
- appease
- approve
- assist
- be lazy
- beautify
- benefit
- boost
- build
- build up
- cherish
- clean
- clement
- commend
- compliment
- compress
- conceal
- concentrate
- condense
- contract
- cooked
- cure
- curtail
- dampen
- decline
- decrease
- defend
- delight
- develop
- diminish
- dissipate
- done
- drop
- elevate
- encourage
- enlarge
- enunciate
- estimate
- exaggerate
- exalt
- exonerate
- expand
- experienced
- extend
- fail
- fall
- favor
- fix
- flatter
- flourish
- forgive
- freeze
- get better
- glorify
- good
- grow
- guard
- guess
- hail
- heal
- healed
- healthy
- help
- hide
- honor
- improve
- increase
- laud
- leave alone
- lessen
- let go
- lose
- lower
- make happy
- mend
- moisten
- mollify
- moral
- optimize
- overestimate
- overrate
- overvalue
- pleasant
- please
- praise
- promote
- pronounce
- protect
- raise
- reduce
- release
- resist
- respect
- retreat
- reward
- shelter
- shield
- shorten
- shrink
- slough off
- slump
- soothe
- sophisticated
- submit
- support
- suppose
- surrender
- sustain
- tell truth
- upgrade
- uphold
- value
- warm
- well-done
- wet
- withstand
- yield
Definition of blistered
Origin :- c.1300, perhaps via Old French blestre "blister, lump, bump," from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse blastr "a blowing," dative blæstri "swelling"), or from Middle Dutch blyster "swelling;" perhaps from PIE *bhlei- "to blow, swell," extension of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell;" see bole.
- As in raw : adj exposed, tender, referring to skin
- As in burned : adj marked by fire or intense heat
- As in inflamed : adj congested
- As in insult : verb abuse, offend
- As in lambaste : verb punish, beat
- As in lash : verb criticize harshly
- As in libel : verb purposefully lie about someone
- As in assail : verb attack, usually with words
- As in attack : verb assault physically
- As in parch : verb dry, burn
- As in scorch : verb burn
- As in slander : verb make a scandalous remark
- As in slur : verb insult
- As in smear : verb tarnish a reputation
- As in baste : verb pummel, thrash
- As in swell : verb become larger
- As in belittle : verb detract
- As in vilify : verb criticize very harshly
- As in berate : verb criticize hatefully
- As in castigate : verb criticize severely
- As in scarify : verb slam
- As in scathe : verb slam
- As in criticize : verb disapprove, judge as bad
- As in defame : verb inflict libel or slander
- As in denigrate : verb belittle, malign
- As in detract : verb take away a part; lessen
- As in excoriate : verb denounce, criticize
- As in fester : verb intensify; become inflamed
- As in flake : verb peel off
- As in humiliate : verb embarrass, put down
- I kissed the place; for I am sure it was blistered, as I may say, by a mother's tear!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- So, he was bled and he was blistered, and he was this and that, for six whole days and nights.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- My back is sore, and my hands are blistered with handling them to-day.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- It was hot, and while it blistered the greedy palates, it seemed incredible.
- Extract from : « The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" » by Joseph Conrad
- He is stone blind, poor fellow, and his feet are blistered and sore.
- Extract from : « The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba » by Walter Goodman
- Page 178: blistered them very much, One changed to blistered them very much.
- Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various
- You could hardly hear his words, his lips were so blistered and swollen.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1915 » by Various
- There was not a spot left which was not blistered and roasted.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
- These being alternately wet and dried, became stiff, and blistered their feet cruelly.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
- Poor Claire was seated on a stone, nursing her blistered foot.
- Extract from : « Lady Bountiful » by George A. Birmingham
Synonyms for blistered
- abase
- abash
- abraded
- abuse
- accumulate
- add to
- advance
- affront
- aggravate
- aggress
- ambush
- amplify
- animadvert on
- annoy
- asperse
- assail
- assault
- attack
- au naturel
- augment
- backbite
- bad mouth
- bad-mouth
- bake
- balloon
- base
- bash
- baste
- bat
- batter
- bawl out
- be inflated
- bean
- beat
- become bloated
- become distended
- become swollen
- befoul
- belabor
- belie
- belittle
- belly
- bemean
- berate
- beset
- besiege
- besmirch
- biff
- billow
- blacken
- blacken name
- blackguard
- blame
- blaspheme
- blast
- blemish
- blister
- blistered
- bloat
- bloodshot
- blot
- blow off
- bludgeon
- boff
- bombard
- boot
- bop
- brain
- brand
- branded
- break
- bring down
- bring low
- broil
- brown
- bruised
- bulge
- burlesque
- burn someone's ears
- burnt
- bust
- call down
- caluminate
- calumniate
- cane
- canker
- cap
- caricature
- carp
- cast a slur on
- cast aspersions on
- cast down
- cast slur on
- castigate
- cauterized
- censure
- chafe
- chafed
- chagrin
- char
- charge
- charred
- chasten
- chastise
- cheapen
- chew
- chew out
- chide
- chip
- chop
- chop down
- clip
- clobber
- clock
- club
- combat
- come at
- come down on
- condemn
- confound
- confuse
- conquer
- cook
- correct
- crack
- crawl all over
- criticize
- crush
- cudgel
- curse
- cuss
- cuss out
- cut
- cut down
- cut down to size
- cut rate
- cut to bits
- cut to the quick
- cut up
- damage
- damn
- debase
- decay
- decrease
- decry
- defame
- defile
- degrade
- dehydrate
- delaminate
- demean
- denigrate
- denounce
- denunciate
- deny
- deprecate
- depreciate
- depress
- deride
- derogate
- desiccate
- desquamate
- detract
- devaluate
- dig
- dilate
- diminish
- dis
- discipline
- discolor
- discomfit
- discount
- discountenance
- discredit
- disesteem
- disgrace
- dishonor
- disoblige
- disparage
- dispraise
- distend
- do a number on
- downgrade
- downplay
- drag name through mud
- drag over the coals
- drag through mud
- draw away
- dress down
- dressed
- drop
- drub
- dry up
- dump on
- eat out
- encounter
- enhance
- enlarge
- evaporate
- excoriate
- exfoliate
- expand
- exprobate
- exsiccate
- extend
- fatten
- festered
- festering
- fevered
- fill out
- find fault
- flay
- flog
- flout
- fluff
- fulminate
- fulminate against
- fustigate
- gall
- galled
- gather
- gird
- give a bad name
- give a black eye
- give bad press
- give black eye
- give one hell
- give what for
- grazed
- grow
- grow larger
- hammer
- harm
- have at
- heighten
- hit
- hit where one lives
- humble
- humiliate
- hurt
- impugn
- increase
- infected
- infiltrate
- injure
- insinuate
- intensity
- invade
- irk
- irritate
- irritated
- jaw
- jeer
- jinx
- jump
- jump all over
- jump down one's throat
- jump on
- kick
- kick in the teeth
- knock
- knock block off
- knock cold
- knock for a loop
- lambaste
- lampoon
- larrup
- lash
- lash into
- laugh at
- lay into
- lay out
- lay siege to
- lean on
- libel
- light into
- lower
- make a fool of
- make ashamed
- make thirsty
- malign
- maltreat
- mark
- mark wrong
- maturate
- maul
- melt
- miff
- minimize
- misprize
- mistreat
- mock
- molest
- mortify
- mount
- muckrake
- mudsling
- mug
- nag at
- naked
- nit-pick
- nude
- offend
- open
- outrage
- overwhelm
- pan
- parch
- parched
- pare
- pared
- peeled
- pelt
- penalize
- pick at
- pin someone's ears back
- plaster
- play down
- plump
- pooh pooh
- poor mouth
- poor-mouth
- pouch
- pounce upon
- pound
- pout
- protrude
- provoke
- puff
- puff up
- pummel
- punch
- punish
- push
- put a whammy on
- put down
- put out of countenance
- put someone on the griddle
- put someone on the hot seat
- put to shame
- put zingers on
- putrefy
- rag on
- raid
- rail
- rail at
- rake over the coals
- rankle
- rap
- rate
- raw
- read the riot act
- read the riot act to
- ream
- rebuke
- red
- reduce
- reprehend
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprobate
- reprove
- revile
- ridicule
- rip
- rip into
- rip up
- rise
- roast
- rot
- round out
- run down
- run smear campaign
- rush
- satirize
- scab
- scald
- scalded
- scale
- scandalize
- scarify
- scathe
- scoff
- scoff at
- scold
- scorch
- scorched
- score
- scorn
- scourge
- scraped
- scratched
- sear
- seared
- seethe
- sensitive
- septic
- set upon
- shame
- shed
- shellac
- shoot down
- shoot full of holes
- shrivel
- simmer
- singe
- singed
- sizzle
- skin
- skin alive
- skinned
- slam
- slander
- slap
- slap in the face
- slash
- slice
- slight
- sling mud
- sliver
- slog
- slug
- slur
- smear
- smirch
- smolder
- smother
- sneer
- sneer at
- snub
- soak
- sore
- sour grapes
- spatter
- speak evil of
- speak ill of
- squash
- squelch
- stab
- stain
- stale
- step on one's toes
- stew
- stigmatize
- storm
- strike
- strumpet
- subdue
- subtract from
- sully
- suppurate
- surge
- swelter
- swollen
- taint
- take a swipe at
- take down
- take down a peg
- take the offensive
- tarnish
- taunt
- tear down
- tear into
- tease
- tell off
- tender
- thrash
- throw mud at
- tongue-lash
- traduce
- trash
- travesty
- trim
- trounce
- tumefy
- turn on
- ulcer
- ulcerate
- unclad
- unclothed
- uncovered
- underestimate
- underrate
- undervalue
- upbraid
- uprise
- vanquish
- vex
- vilify
- vilipend
- villainize
- vituperate
- voodoo
- wallop
- wear away
- well up
- whip
- whomp
- whop
- withdraw
- wither
- work over
- wounded
- write off
- zap
- zing
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