puncture

Speech parts

1. puncture - Noun

2. puncture - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

deflate jimmy pierce gore nick lance riddle gash open cut punch drill spike opening break
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Antonyms

close improve accept fit prove agree
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Hypernyms

pierce make create separate activity break

Hyponyms

prick perforation pricking scarify pinprick centesis

Phrases with the word

cisternal puncture puncture into the subarachnoid space sternal puncture high puncture laryngeal puncture puncture-proof tire

Derivatives

punctured puncturing

Examples

Nobody 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

Close letter words and terms

punctum vegetationis puncturable puncturation puncture into the subarachnoid space puncture vine puncture-proof tire