Meaning & use
Pocks
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Small pitted scars or marks on the skin, especially those left by a disease such as smallpox or chickenpox.
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Faint pocks still marked his cheeks from a childhood bout of chickenpox.
The old wooden door was covered in pocks from years of woodworm.
A note on using this word
Related to 'pox', the historical name for diseases like smallpox that leave such scarring.
Words with a similar meaning
pockmarkspits
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To mark something with small pits or scars.
Years of acid rain pocks the old stone facade.
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