pockmark
[ pok-mahrk ]
/ ˈpɒkˌmɑrk /
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.
OTHER WORDS FROM pockmark
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Example sentences from the Web for pockmark
Great sink holes, some of them six hundred feet deep and more, pockmark the surface of the land.
The Elements of Geology |William Harmon Norton
British Dictionary definitions for pockmark
pockmark
/ (ˈpɒkˌmɑːk) /
noun
Also called: pock
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
Medical definitions for pockmark
pockmark
[ pŏk′märk′ ]
n.
A pitlike scar that is left on the skin by smallpox or another eruptive disease.