pock

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noun
R

A mark left on the skin after a pimple or smallpox has healed.

Her face had pock marks from a past illness.

verb
R

To make something have many small holes or depressions.

The old wall was pocked with bullet holes.

translation

n. A mark left on the skin after a pimple or smallpox has healed.
v. To make something have many small holes or depressions.

Word Forms

Plural pocks
Perfect pocked
Progressive pocking