to pockmark

Examples

• All

• The picture windows have been broken, and the walls are pockmarked with holes.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Others stared, almost amazed at the sight of buildings pockmarked with bullet holes, like wounds torn.

  Academic text (2011)

• If you start adding the black, you start getting this pockmarking business.

• His skin was very bad... pockmarked.

  The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

• The woman standing in the doorway had a broad face, pockmarked from an earlier illness.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The cell door clanked open to reveal a uniform with a face as pockmarked as the concrete floor.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The fellow with the pockmarked face prayed aloud and then lay down on the bench.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Instead, the experience of war is communicated through the destroyed and pockmarked buildings (Fig. 2).

  Academic text (2004)

• Collisions are one of the fundamental processes in the solar system, as the pockmarked surfaces of airless bodies demonstrate.

  Academic text (1994)

• Umber, mountainous slopes were pockmarked with a million dots of gnarled sage.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

M

to mark

vsto pockmark

50 3.0

Leave a permanent scar on skin or a surface

is specific to small pits and scars usually caused by disease or damage

S

to scar

vsto pockmark

15 3.4

Leave a permanent mark on the skin or a surface after an injury

is about small pits and shallow surface marks rather than deep lasting wounds

P

to pit

vsto pockmark

• Specialized

8 7.3

To make small dents on a surface

includes both shallow hollows and scarred spots caused by damage

P

to pock

vsto pockmark

• Archaic

4 9.6

To make small pits or scars on skin and other surfaces

is broader, covers both small pits and surface scars from damage

Antonyms

H

to heal

481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

How Marked

to disfigure

31 5.8

to scar

15 3.4

to pockmark

7 7.9

to mar

2 5.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology