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Like the surface of the moon
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pockmarked
Word definitions for pockmarked in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pockmarked \Pock"marked`\, a. Marked by smallpox; pitted.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used of paved surfaces having holes or pits [syn: pocked , potholed ] marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease [syn: pocked ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a pockmarked face ▪ The government buildings were pockmarked with bullet holes. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Carla has never seen Tfo Vic bring any kind of shoes to the house but the pockmarked ones he wears.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 having pockmarks 2 pitted, or scarred with holes v (en-past of: pockmark)
Usage examples of pockmarked.
The jagged sandstone wall was pockmarked with dark holes of caves and streaked with narrow cracks and crevices.
It was littered with crumbling fragments of debris, and pockmarked with many craterlets, dozens, perhaps hundreds.
It looked like a lumpy potato, pockmarked with craterlets from the impacts of smaller rocks.
Its face was pockmarked with craters and chasms, crisscrossed with hundreds of crevices.
On the evening of September ninth, a pockmarked graduate student named Deccan Blendish stood in a crowd in Durbar Square to watch the first public interrogations of that season, a victory, if it can be called that, for a certain extreme faction in the school of law.
The pockmarked surface of the Dreadnaught grew nearer, resembling a badly scarred moon.
The shaft was also pockmarked with hundreds of tiny hexagons that appeared to be finely tooled and scattered at random.
This craggy ridgeline rose starkly above the trees, a jumbled mass of natural rock pale in color and pockmarked by openings, steps, niches, overhangs, and what looked like windows carved into the upper reaches of the little crags.
The thick mustache and beard he had grown to mask the pockmarked, hooked-nose cragginess of his face had only ended up adding to the effect he had hoped to minimize.
Its façade was pockmarked, its mullions splintered, its dripstones snapped off.
The pockmarked Griqua Bastaard smiled at him, white teeth in the darkly handsome face and the gypsy ringlets dangling to his collar.
His government and army would survive this debacle long enough for him to see the inside of a courtroom and the pockmarked wall before the firing squad.
Or something slightly different from human, something imbedded in the walls and pockmarked floor tiles.
It was pockmarked and rusted to the edge of indecipherability, but after a couple of years in Maggody, most everything and everybody is.
Mountainside and rocky plain, crater-wall and valley floor, alike and innumerably were pockmarked with sub-craters and with immensely yawning shell-holes, as though the whole planet had been throughout geologic ages the target of an incessant cosmic bombardment.