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pockmarking

pockmarking is the present participle and gerund of pockmark.

Meaning of pockmark

Noun

pockmark (plural pockmarks)

  1. A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
    • When we were quite well and tolerably free from pock-marks [from smallpox], my father took us to London with him, […]1883, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “Whitehall before the Cobwebs”, in Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4
  2. A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.

Questions about pockmarking

What is pockmarking the present participle and gerund of?
Pockmarking is the present participle and gerund of pockmark.

Words near pockmarking in the dictionary

  1. Pocklington
  2. pockmanteau
  3. pockmanteaus
  4. pockmark
  5. pockmarked
  6. pockmarking
  7. pockmarks
  8. Pocknee
  9. pockpit
  10. pockpits
  11. pockpitted

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