: to infect with a pox and especially with syphilis
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Witnesses recall seeing sufferers with so many pox on their faces that their features were no longer identifiable.—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for pox
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