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/pɒk/ · noun
A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease..
In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel.
Use pock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pock means A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease..
Common synonyms include mark, scar, pit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
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