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• v  mark with a scar
• s  used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
• s  marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease

• Most of the windows don't roll down; the passenger-side door opens only from the outside; and the paint is pocked with rust.
• While Germans and Russians were booting each other to death in the bomb-pocked streets, Stalin was organizing the winter offensive which burst into the Don basin with the fury of .
• The long-range verbal combat between the President and the House Armed Services Committee over the Administration's defense reorganization plan rattled into a third, shell-pocked .

• scar
• mark
• pock
• pit
• pockmarked
• potholed

News & Articles

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• Unpaved roads continue to plague Spokane neighborhoods
  It's a problem that plagues all corners of Spokane: Unpaved roads. The pocked pathways can do significant damage to cars, too, but the city won't touch them without a little cooperation from neighbors.
  June 11, 2013 - KXLY-TV Spokane

Quotes

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• Alex Haley in American Chronicle
  In his book about Malcolm X, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," Alex Haley wrote: "Sister Betty came through the people, herself a nurse, and those recognizing her moved back. She fell on her knees, looking down at his bare, bullet pocked chest,...
• Ben Brantley in Washington Post
  The fragmented, pause-pocked dialogue that Mr. McPherson uses here is nearly as difficult to nail as that of Harold Pinter,Brantley wrote.