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pockmarked adjective

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Definition

marked with pockmarks
a pockmarked face
describes a surface with a lot of holes or low areas in it
The houses in the village were pockmarked with bullet holes.

(Definition of pockmarked adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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