Puncture Definition

pŭngkchər
punctured, punctures, puncturing
verb
punctured, punctures, puncturing
To perforate or pierce with a sharp point.
Webster's New World
To reduce or put an end to, as if by a puncture.
To puncture someone's pride.
Webster's New World
To make (a hole) by piercing.
American Heritage
To be punctured.
Webster's New World
To depreciate or deflate.
Cutting remarks that punctured my ego.
American Heritage
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noun
punctures
The act or an instance of perforating or piercing.
Webster's New World
A hole made by a sharp point, as in an automobile tire, the skin, etc.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Puncture

Noun

Singular:
puncture
Plural:
punctures

Origin of Puncture

  • From Middle English a pricking from Late Latin pūnctūra from pūnctus past participle of pungere to prick peuk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Puncture Sentence Examples

  • As the nut grows the slight puncture becomes almost obliterated, so that it is unnoticed by all but the most observant eye.

  • The exciting cause of the hypertrophy, in the case of the typical galls, appears to be a minute quantity of some irritating fluid, or virus, secreted by the female insect, and deposited with her egg in the puncture made by her ovipositor in the cortical or foliaceous parts of plants.

  • This secretion is caused by the puncture of an insect, Coccus manniparus.

  • The tubes have walls thicker at the ends than in the middle, as the tendency to puncture the glass is greatest at the edges of the coatings.

  • Insemination takes place either by the introduction of the penis into the cloaca of the female, or by the puncture of the bodywall of the female by the penis, and the injection of the sperm into the body cavity, whence the single spermatozoa must make their way to the eggs.

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Words Starting With

PPUPUN

Words Ending With

EREURE

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puncture

Words Starting With P and Ending With E

Starts With P & Ends With EStarts With PU & Ends With EStarts With P & Ends With RE

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With P8 Letter Words Ending With E