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单词 pockmark
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pockmark

[ pok-mahrk ]
/ ˈpɒkˌmɑrk /
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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.

Origin of pockmark

First recorded in 1665–75; pock + mark1

OTHER WORDS FROM pockmark

pockmarked, adjective

Words nearby pockmark

pocket secretary, pocket-size, pocket-square, pocket veto, pockies, pockmark, pockmarked, pocky, poco, poco a poco, pococurante
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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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Medical definitions for pockmark

pockmark
[ pŏkmärk′ ]

n.

A pitlike scar that is left on the skin by smallpox or another eruptive disease.

Other words from pockmark

pockmarked′ adj.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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