1. puncture - Noun
2. puncture - Verb
The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.
A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin.
To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two. Navjot Singh Sidhu
I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live. Augusten Burroughs
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son. Abraham Verghese
I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage. Molly Harper
There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture. Julia Quinn