verb
- marking or scarring with small pits or holes
Usage: present participle of ‘pock’
Examples
- The disease was pocking his skin with small craters.
- Hail was pocking the car’s hood with dents.
- Years of acne had been pocking her face since adolescence.
- The metal surface showed signs of pocking from corrosion.
- Bullets were pocking the wall with holes.