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pockmarked

/ ˈpɒkˌmɑːkd /

adjective

  1. abounding in 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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The smart shops and restaurants running down to the beach are now pockmarked with shrapnel and bullet holes, the park with its French-manicured trees, is buried under grey rubble.

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After 23 months of war, it now lies in ruins, pockmarked by craters, with burned-out wards and bullet holes.

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A small, wiry, pockmarked young man with curly hair and a hard-to-place accent, he loitered in the area for hours, asking kitchen workers if his target would be coming that way.

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At the Saraya home in Sweida, signs of the violence are everywhere — walls pockmarked by shrapnel from a hand grenade and family pictures and mirrors cracked by bullet holes.

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And not even in the federal government in Washington, where the streets are now pockmarked from tanks and military vehicles.

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