pox

Plural: poxes

Noun

• a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
• a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
• A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
• Syphilis.
• A curse.

Verb

Verb Forms: poxed, poxing, poxes

• To infect with or affect by a pox disease.
• To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Examples

• The thought of a blank tile never appearing POXED his usually optimistic Scrabble outlook.

Synonyms

lues, lues venerea, syph, syphilis

Anagrams of pox