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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease v
1: mark with or as if with pockmarks; "Her face was pockmarked by the disease"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: circa 1673 a mark, pit, or depressed scar caused by smallpox or acne; also an imperfection or depression like a pockmark II. transitive verb Date: 1756 to cover with or as if with pockmarks ; pit

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pockmark Pock"mark, n. A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also pock mark(pockmarks) Pockmarks are small hollows on the surface of something. She has a poor complexion and pock marks on her forehead... The pockmarks made by her bullets are still on the wall. N-COUNT: usu pl

Moby Thesaurus

alveolation, alveolus, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, depress, dimple, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, engrave, fault, flaw, freckle, furrow, gouge, hemangioma, hickey, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, keloid, kink, lentigo, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, notch, pimple, pit, pock, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, press in, print, punch, punch in, pustule, recess, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, set back, set in, split, stamp, strawberry mark, sty, sunken part, tamp, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead