pock
/pɔk/
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Definition
Noun:
- A pustule or small, pus-filled blister characteristic of certain eruptive diseases, especially smallpox: A "pock" is a specific type of skin lesion.
- The mark or scar left by such a pustule after it heals: It can also refer to the permanent indentation or pit remaining on the skin.
Verb:
- To mark or scar with pits or indentations: The action of causing a surface, especially skin, to become marked with small hollows or scars.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- The patient's face was covered with pocks from the illness.
- Even after recovery, the deep pocks on his skin were still visible.
Verb:
- The severe acne pocked his cheeks.
- The surface of the old table was pocked by years of wear and insect damage.
Advanced Usage
- "Pockmarked" (Adjective): Describing a surface, especially skin, that is covered with many small pits or scars.
- The pockmarked wall told the story of the building's long history.
- His pockmarked complexion was a result of childhood chickenpox.
Variants and Related Words
- Pockmark (Noun): A pit or scar on the skin, typically one left by a pustule. Often used interchangeably with "pock" as a noun for the scar.
- The moon's surface is covered in pockmarks from meteor impacts.
- Pockmarked (Adjective): As described above.
- Poxy (Adjective, informal): Of poor quality; worthless. This is a figurative extension from diseases like smallpox (historically called "the pox").
Synonyms
- Noun (for the lesion): Pustule, vesicle, blister.
- Noun (for the scar): Pit, indentation, scar, pockmark.
- Verb: Pit, scar, mark, dent.
Related Phrases
- "Pocked with": A phrase describing a surface that has many of something, often problems or features, like pits.
- The report was pocked with errors.
- The landscape was pocked with small craters.
Noun
- a pustule in an eruptive disease
Verb
- mark with a scar
- The skin disease scarred his face permanently