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Answer for the clue "Pitted with holes ", 6 letters:
pocked

Word definitions for pocked in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Around and among them lounged villainous men with pocked faces and broken teeth. ▪ Behind the stern blue drapes of the Tory Conference you could feel the pocked walls mouldering to the loud applause. ▪ His lean pocked body ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used of paved surfaces having holes or pits [syn: pockmarked , potholed ] marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease [syn: pockmarked ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
pockmarked v (en-past of: pock)

Usage examples of pocked.

Gabin and loped off just before the Besas pocked and the flamethrower blackened the facade of the prison.

She was a large, boneless woman who draped herself like an old blanket over the chairs of the apartment, staring for hours with her gray eyes at ghosts, figments, recollections, and dust caught in oblique sunbeams, her arms streaked and pocked like relief maps of vast planets, her massive calves stuffed like forcemeat into lung-colored support hose.

SHIP OF THE LINE Out in the middle of the mall under the moonless night, a full-sized Cardassian warship settled hoggishly onto the cracked and pocked pavement, lit only by the reflection of its own harsh scene lights.

Killeen came down on a pocked polyalum slab, the old kind that mechs had used for some long-forgotten purpose.

From his position, all Midas could see in the smoky darkness were bright flashes of red and orange as the bullets exploded from the M-18, turning up clumps of earth in front of the generator and leaving a pocked trail as the man continued to shout something and squeeze the trigger.

Loemanako, face mostly a mask of shredded flesh pocked with the green tags where the rapid regrowth bios were embedded.

Ghost ships and science platforms swept over the pocked landscape, fragments of shining net.

I followed him along a path that cut inland for a mile, then angled back toward the river, rejoining it at a point where the banks widened and lifted into steep cliffs of pocked grayish black limestone, forming a cup-shaped gorge that shadowed the green water, and the perfumey heat of the jungle gave way to a profound freshness, like the smell of spring water in an old well.

The entryway was S-shaped, with ironwood gates and portcullises at both ends, roofed over its entire length, with walls and ceiling pocked by murder-holes.

The entry way was S-shaped, with ironwood gates and portcullises at both ends, roofed over its entire length, with walls and ceiling pocked by murder holes.

List found themselves in a cleared area pocked with smouldering, broken earth, the refugees behind them withdrawing as they pushed towards the ford, the rearguard before them finally able to draw breath as the undead warriors waded into their foe.

Thorn Tissy, was squat, with a face that might be handsome to a female toad, his cheeks pocked and the backs of his hands covered in warts.

From this vantage point slightly above town you cauld see uninterruptedly across the mercury-colored mesaland, pocked occasionally with juniper bushes, bisected by that thin dark crack of a gorge, and stretching westward for smooth, dusty-soft miles to the dim ice cream-mound mountains and buttes beyond which the sun was slowly floating into its kaleidoscopic oblivion.

Fat and cadaverous, pocked, oily and consumptive looking, they seemed wrong next to the sleek alto-like a crime scene photo with blurs that fucked up the symmetry and made you notice the wrong things.

He followed Roh outside, atop the very crest of the outermost tower of Ohtij-in, where the moons' wan light streamed through the ragged clouds: Anli and Sith were overhead, and hard behind them hurtled the fragments of the Broken Moon, while on the horizon was the vast white face of Li, pocked and scarred.