When something is pockmarked, it has small holes or marks all over it. This can be the result of a physical attack, or it can be the result of something else.
The rug is pockmarked with the holes from where the rodents nested.
The pockmarked skin is a sign that the person is infected with a disease.
adjective
marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease
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adjective
used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
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The badge was stained with blood and pockmarked by buckshot.
2
The floors were tiled but pockmarked and broken up.
3
The outer shell is gray and pockmarked, like the surface of the moon.
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Note the roofless and pockmarked Altes Rathaus looking up the Tal.
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Her entire body was pockmarked with shrapnel and her blood loss was rapid.
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It had more than an occasional pockmark from an assault by recent rains.