pock
n.
pimple, inflammation of the skin, pustule
Pock
Pock, or Pöck, is a surname commonly associated with Austrian heritage. The surname is somewhat uncommon in the United States.
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pock
Noun
1. a pustule in an eruptive disease
(hypernym) pustule
(part-holonym) smallpox, variola, variola major
(derivation) scar, mark, pit
Verb
1. mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
(synonym) scar, mark, pit
(hypernym) deface, disfigure, blemish
(hyponym) pockmark
(entail) incise
(verb-group) score, nock, mark
Pock
(n.)
A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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pock
Synonyms and related words:
abscess, alveolation, alveolus, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, cold sore, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, depress, dilatation, dilation, dimple, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, edema, engrave, eschar, fault, feel, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, finish, fistula, flaw, freckle, furrow, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gouge, grain, granular texture, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, knub, lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, nap, needle scar, nevus, notch, nub, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, pile, piles, pimple, pit, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, press in, print, protuberance, punch, punch in, pustule, recess, rift, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, set back, set in, shag, soft chancre, sore, split, stamp, stigma, strawberry mark, structure, sty, sunken part, suppuration, surface, surface texture, swell, swelling, swollenness, tamp, texture, track, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, weave, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, woof, wound
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.