pock, Refugees trickling out of Chechnya into the makeshift camps

 

Refugees trickling out of Chechnya into the makeshift camps that pock the Caucasus foothills near Nazran are bringing stories of what could be one of the worst civilian massacres in the Chechen war.

pock

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noun

ˈpäk 

: a pustule in an eruptive disease (such as smallpox)

also : a spot suggesting such a pustule

pock

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verb

pocked; pocking; pocks

transitive verb

: to mark with or as if with pocks : PIT