Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pitted or marked with smallpox, or with pits resembling those of smallpox; pock-pitted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Marked by smallpox; pitted.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pockmark . - adjective Having pockmarks.
- adjective
Pitted , orscarred withholes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
- adjective marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease
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Examples
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According to The Telegraph's Tim Butcher, headstones at Britain's Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City were not only "pockmarked" by shrapnel from Israeli artillery, but some were even destroyed during the Israeli "operation" in Beit Hanoun.
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He said government data collection projects are often "pockmarked" with omissions and outright errors,
WordPress.com News 2009
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Footage broadcast on Israeli media showed homes pockmarked with large shrapnel holes from where mortar shells exploded.
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As darkness swelled up from the east a full moon rose and illuminated great sheets of thin cloud like wadded fabric drawn across its pockmarked white face.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The differences between Broadmoor and New Orleans East — two neighborhoods of similar racial and socioeconomic makeup but miles apart in post-Katrina recovery — symbolize the pockmarked rebuilding process ongoing in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast.
Six years after Katrina, pockets of New Orleans languishing 2011
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The fellow scratched at a pockmarked nose and coughed, eyeing the mare uneasily.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven xcpublishing 2009
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In its lee, on ground still pockmarked by the trampling of cattle, is a song thrush.
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He was a big thick guy with a large pockmarked nose and small green eyes.
So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011
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Mjadara is classic peasant food, an ancient dish whose name means “the pockmarked one,” for the dark lentils embedded in grain.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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As darkness swelled up from the east a full moon rose and illuminated great sheets of thin cloud like wadded fabric drawn across its pockmarked white face.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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