pockmark
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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)
3.
to mark or scar with or as with pockmarks: gopher holes pockmarking the field.
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pockmark (ˈpɒkˌmɑːk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: pock 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 |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to scar or pit (a surface) with pockmarks |
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
pockmark pock·mark (pŏk'märk')
n.
A pitlike scar that is left on the skin by smallpox or another eruptive disease.
pock'marked' adj.
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Example sentences
Depressions, known as kettles, often pockmark outwash and moraines.
People live in caves that pockmark the crumbling hillsides.
The third type of anomaly is a pockmark, outlined with purple polygons.
The pockmark dissolution is also found at several other places on the building.
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