: to infect with a pox and especially with syphilis
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Importing live animals from Greece was banned after a separate disease – goat pox – was detected last October.—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 7 Aug. 2024 But then Bacon, now with pox, visits George and asks for one small act of personal vengeance, which George agrees to because MEN.—Alice Burton, Vulture, 10 May 2024 Many of these voters may simply be casting a pox on both the Justice Department and the defendant.—Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023 Rodgers, Griffith, and others last week asked that one of Fauci’s deputies, a longtime pox researcher, sit for an interview on controversial pathogen research.—Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 7 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for pox
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