pock

as in blister
a small, inflamed swelling of the skin noticed strange pocks on his torso

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Recent Examples on the Web His sallow legs are stippled with acid pock marks. Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022 In the five years since Bentley released his last studio album, 2018’s The Mountain, and went into Rocky Mountain exile, open divisions and infighting driven by political differences and the culture wars have pock-marked the genre. Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2023 Each pock on the fruit’s exterior is called an achene, and each achene is an individual fruit with a corresponding seed in the interior. Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2014 In more corrosive water, the once-pristine shells become flaked and pock-marked—a harbinger of an early death. WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for pock 

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“Pock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pock. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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