pockmark

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The attack leaves a quarter-sized, bloody pockmark on the skin.

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  1. noun A pitlike scar left on the skin by smallpox or another eruptive disease.
  2. noun A small pit on a surface: The gophers left the lawn covered with pockmarks.
  3. transitive verb To cover with pockmarks; pit.

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  • I turned up the gains and concentrated on one particularly ugly pockmark, right below his eye, as he leaned in close, attempting intimidation. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • To this day, bullet holes pockmark buildings, amputees beg along the roads, and crushing poverty saturates the country. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • The Republicans are already skating on thin ice in this country, and to make such a monumentally callous and childish move is an appalling pockmark on the face of American politics. —  Dissident Voice
  • The collapsing bubbles pockmark surrounding cells. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
  • As you may have heard, the past year has not been kind to the city: New York's lost 85,000 jobs (and counting); we face a whopping budget deficit ($1.5 billion, give or take); two of our magnet industries-Wall Street and the media-are reeling, and judging from the empty storefronts that pockmark the streets, kraft-paper brown is the hot new color for spring.
 

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