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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



... cities, the thermometer had climbed and climbed. Pavements were blistering hot; watering carts went lumbering round only to send up a reek of noisome mist and to leave the streets whitening again a few yards behind them. Blinds were closed up and down the avenues, where people had either long left their houses vacant ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... peering down the blistering hot track, wiped the sweat from his face and hands with a filthy rag, and looked at ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy
... delighting and surprising Jenny. But we never regarded a gummy substance exuding from all parts of the tree, which plagued us for some time afterwards, destroying the stockings, and very, very difficult to get off, also blistering the skin a little, but these sheathes for the leaves of the Ita palm really made capital shoes. We had only to dry them a little in the sun. They did not however last very long, and it was no uncommon ...
— Yr Ynys Unyg - The Lonely Island • Julia de Winton
... work went on. The poor Negroes in the jail, in a state of morbid desperation, turned upon each other the blistering tongue of accusation. They knew that they were accusing each other innocently,—as many confessed afterwards,—but this was the last straw that these sinking people could see to catch at, and this they did involuntarily. "Victims were required; ...
— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams
... sore that night that Grandpa bought her overalls. He got her and Dick big straw hats, too, though it was too late to keep their faces from blistering. All the Beechams but Grandma wore overalls. She couldn't bring herself to it. That night she made herself a sunbonnet out of an old shirt, sitting close to a candle stuck ...
— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means


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