pockmark

[pok-mahrk] /ˈpɒkˌmɑrk/
noun
1.
Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
2.
a small pit or scar:
a tabletop full of pockmarks.
verb (used with object)
3.
to mark or scar with or as with pockmarks:
gopher holes pockmarking the field.
Origin
1665-75; pock + mark1
Related forms
pockmarked, adjective
Examples from the web for pockmark
  • People live in caves that pockmark the crumbling hillsides.
  • The pockmark dissolution is also found at several other places on the building.
  • The third type of anomaly is a pockmark, outlined with purple polygons.
  • Depressions, known as kettles, often pockmark outwash and moraines.
British Dictionary definitions for pockmark

pockmark

/ˈpɒkˌmɑːk/
noun
1.
Also called pock. a pitted scar left on the skin after the healing of a smallpox or similar pustule
2.
any pitting of a surface that resembles or suggests such scars
verb
3.
(transitive) to scar or pit (a surface) with pockmarks
pockmark in Medicine

pockmark pock·mark (pŏk'märk')
n.
A pitlike scar that is left on the skin by smallpox or another eruptive disease.

pock'marked' adj.