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POCKMARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pockmark" is a kind of...):
cicatrice; cicatrix; scar (a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mark with or as if with pockmarks
Example:
Her face was pockmarked by the disease
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "pockmark" is one way to...):
mark; pit; pock; scar (mark with a scar)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
