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noun
A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
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verb
To scar or mark with pits
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noun
a pustule in an eruptive disease
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pustule
verb
mark with a scar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: scar, mark, pit
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Broader terms: deface, disfigure, blemish
Narrower terms: pockmark, cicatrize, cicatrise
History
From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bhew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).
Across languages
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