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• v  mark with or as if with pockmarks
  Her face was pockmarked by the disease
• s  used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
• s  marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease

• The new look may have already shed new light on the processes that formed the pockmarked surface of the moon.
• Most of its buildings are knocked flat, as though by dynamite, or pockmarked by shellfire.
• For 88 years it has been a final resting place for the World Series dreams of both the White Sox and Cubs, an epically painful calendar of defeat pockmarked by Bartman (the dopey .

• pockmark
• pocked
• potholed

News & Articles

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• Gators' disappointing baseball season ends with NCAA loss to Valparaiso
  UF lost 5-4 during elimination game Saturday BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Florida's season ended fittingly Saturday: pockmarked with inconsistency, beset by frustration and, ultimately, in disappointment.
  June 8, 2013 - Sun-Sentinel

Quotes

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• Tony Blair in USA Today
  Blair, who is widely expected to announce his resignation from office later this week, said Ireland had suffered "centuries pockmarked by conflict, hardship and hatred."
• Jacob Zuma in Independent Online
  History is pockmarked with countries that become failed states because of a lack of a separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary, leading to inadequate checks and balances,Zuma said.
• John Henry in USA Today
  It'll be a couple of years, and he will always be a bit pockmarked. After damage as heavy as that, I think he will not return to his film star looks,said Henry.