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a spot on the skin that contains pus (= thick yellowish infected liquid), caused by a disease such as chickenpox or smallpox, or a small hollow place that is left when the spot has healed: His face was covered in pocks and cysts.
The meaning of POCK is a pustule in an eruptive disease (such as smallpox); also : a spot suggesting such a pustule. How to use pock in a sentence.
noun. 1. a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
OED's earliest evidence for pock is from 1841, in a letter by Murray. It is also recorded as a noun from the Old English period (pre-1150). pock is formed within English, by conversion.
adjective. the moon's pocked surface. a bullet- pocked wall [=a wall that bullets have pocked] The road was pocked with potholes. a face pocked with scars. POCK meaning: to make holes in or marks on (something)
noun. pocks. A pustule caused by smallpox or some other disease. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A mark or scar left in the skin by such a pustule; a pockmark. American Heritage Medicine. Pockmark. Webster's New World. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar. Wiktionary. Synonyms: mark. flaw. hole. verb. To mark with pocks; pit.
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