| 单词 | pockmark |
| 释义 | pockmark (once / 27423 pages) nv A pockmark is a small, concave scar on a person's skin. Pockmarks can be caused by severe acne. People who have a lot of pimples as teenagers sometimes end up with pockmarks on their faces as adults. Any serious skin condition — including chickenpox or insect bites — can result in a pockmark. You can also use this word as a verb, either to mean "mark with scars," or to describe something that reminds you of pockmarked skin: "The rain pockmarks the smooth sand on the beach." WORD FAMILYpockmark: pockmarked, pockmarking, pockmarks USAGE EXAMPLESThe survey showed a surface pockmarked with sinkholes, some of them sixty-five feet wide. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) He slept on a suede couch pockmarked with cigarette burns. The New Yorker(Dec 24, 2016) The whitewashed walls of his house are pockmarked with blast marks and jagged holes gouged by flying shrapnel. BBC(Dec 08, 2016) 1n a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease Hyper cicatrice, cicatrix, scar a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue 2v mark with or as if with pockmarks Her face was pockmarked by the disease Hyper mark, pit, pock, scar mark with a scar |
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