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vesicate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb vesicate has 1 sense
- vesicate(v = verb.change) blister - get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" is one way to intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce
Derived forms adjective vesicant1, noun vesication1, adjective vesicatory1
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
vesicate, v. t. [See Vesicant.].
To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
vesicate, v.tr. raise blisters on.
Derivative
vesicant adj. & n. vesication n. vesicatory adj. & n.
Etymology
LL vesicare vesicat- (as VESICA)
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