pockmark Definition
pock·mark (päk′märk′)
noun
- a scar or pit in the skin left by a pustule, as of smallpox
- any pit or mark suggestive of this
transitive verb
to pit, cover, or scar with pockmarks
pockmark Related Forms
pockmark Synonyms
pockmark Usage Examples
Object
- wall: One of his images was that child playing by the pockmarked wall.
- surface: Tiny images of dancing deities were painted on the pockmarked surface.
- skin: The only reason he would never be a leading man was his badly pockmarked skin.
- road: We set off at 7 in an ancient VW combi, soon slowing to a crawl on dirt roads pockmarked with potholes.
Converse of object
produce: The gas seepage which is believed to produce the pockmarks is probably episodic in nature and may have persisted for several thousand years.
Subject
- bullet: The timbers of this 15th century building are pockmarked by bullets thought to have been fired by the Royalists during the siege.
- hole: The center of the flat rock plateau is pockmarked by deep holes which have been carved out over the centuries to hold rain water.
Modifies a noun
formation: Processes of pockmark formation, their geometry, age and distribution, and the sources of gas in the underlying geological strata are discussed.
Modifying Another Word
still: The battlefield is still pockmarked with shell craters The red sign is very clear in its instruction: " Danger.
Noun used with modifier
seafloor: This report was prepared by Dr. Alan Judd ( University of Sunderland ), one of the world's foremost authorities on seafloor pockmarks.
Preposition: with
hole: We were moored by a big, old, brick-built warehouse, pockmarked with bullet holes and shell spatters.
Preposition: by
Browse dictionary entries near pockmark
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