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pockmark

[ pok-mahrk ]

noun

  1. Usually pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  2. a small pit or scar:

    a tabletop full of pockmarks.



verb (used with object)

  1. to mark or scar with or as with pockmarks:

    gopher holes pockmarking the field.

pockmark

/ ˈpɒkˌmɑːk /

noun

  1. Also calledpock a pitted scar left on the skin after the healing of a smallpox or similar pustule
  2. any pitting of a surface that resembles or suggests such scars
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to scar or pit (a surface) with pockmarks
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • pockmarked adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pockmark1

First recorded in 1665–75; pock + mark 1
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Example Sentences

Several groupings of craters in southeastern Wyoming, including dozens of pockmarks in all, have the hallmarks of secondary cratering, researchers report February 11 in GSA Bulletin.

The chimney pipe from the wood stove, in the center of the room, is shiny with pockmarks.

In late spring, the fruit ripens slowly, but hopefully before birds returning from the South have time to peck pockmarks into it.

Great sink holes, some of them six hundred feet deep and more, pockmark the surface of the land.

We're falling to the Earth, to form the largest pockmark of all!

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