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pockmark
[ pok-mahrk ]
noun
- Usually pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- a small pit or scar:
a tabletop full of pockmarks.
verb (used with object)
- to mark or scar with or as with pockmarks:
gopher holes pockmarking the field.
pockmark
/ ˈpɒkˌmɑːk /
noun
- Also calledpock a pitted scar left on the skin after the healing of a smallpox or similar pustule
- any pitting of a surface that resembles or suggests such scars
verb
- tr to scar or pit (a surface) with pockmarks
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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.
From Science News
The chimney pipe from the wood stove, in the center of the room, is shiny with pockmarks.
From ProPublica
In late spring, the fruit ripens slowly, but hopefully before birds returning from the South have time to peck pockmarks into it.
From Washington Post
Great sink holes, some of them six hundred feet deep and more, pockmark the surface of the land.
From Project Gutenberg
We're falling to the Earth, to form the largest pockmark of all!
From Project Gutenberg
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