blister vs termite

blister

noun
  • A cause of annoyance. 

  • A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities. 

  • A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface. 

  • 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 bubble, as on a painted surface. 

  • Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula. 

  • 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. 

  • A swelling on a plant. 

  • Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine. 

verb
  • To break out in blisters. 

  • To sear after blaching. 

  • To raise blisters on. 

  • To have a blister form. 

  • To criticise severely. 

termite

noun
  • A contemptible person. 

  • A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea. 

verb
  • Of a chimpanzee: to catch termites by inserting a stick or vine into their nest and waiting for them to climb up it. 

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