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Puncture   /pˈəŋktʃər/  /pˈəŋkʃər/   Listen
Puncture

noun
1.
Loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object.
2.
A small hole made by a sharp object.
3.
The act of puncturing or perforating.
verb
(past & past part. punctured; pres. part. puncturing)
1.
Pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into.
2.
Make by piercing.
3.
Reduce or lessen the size or importance of.  Synonym: deflate.
4.
Cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing.
5.
Be pierced or punctured.



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"Puncture" Quotes from Famous Books



... course of time, and it became necessary again and again to repeat the process. And unhappily there was no absolute security of immunity from bad consequences. However carefully the procedure was conducted, it sometimes happened, even though the puncture seemed healing by first intention, that feverish symptoms declared themselves in the course of the first or second day, and, on inspecting the seat of the abscess, the skin was perhaps seen to be red, implying the presence of some cause of irritation, while a rapid reaccumulation of ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... wish to use for their food the juices of other animals or of plants do not find them so easy to gather. In the mosquito most of the mouth parts are developed into slender pointed bristles wrapped in a hind lip. These bristles serve to puncture the skin of the creature attacked, while the curled lip serves as a tube through which ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker
... may have thought the doctor was about to inflict a vicarious puncture on himself. Skenedonk, with respect for civilized surgery, waited. I did not wait. The operator bared me to the elbow and showed a piece of plaster already sticking on my arm. The conviction of being outraged in my person ...
— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... woman among women she knew nothing, nor whether she was plain or pretty. Indeed, had she had to say offhand which, she would have answered plain. The revelation which comes sooner or later to all women of the charms they possess had not yet come to her; and Edgar's words, making the first puncture in her ignorance, pained her more by the shock which they gave her self-consciousness than they pleased her by ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various
... Hudson River town. Only a few miles away a negro boy, shortly after, was struck by a copperhead on the bare leg. The wound was a deep, double-fanged puncture. While the boy's father rushed for whisky, his mother ran for the doctor. The doctor got there first. He opened up the wound and rubbed in permanganate of potash to oxidize the venom and destroy its toxic properties. ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine


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