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punctured

punctured is the simple past and past participle of puncture.

Meaning of puncture

Verb

puncture (third-person singular simple present punctures, present participle puncturing, simple past and past participle punctured)

  1. To pierce; to break through; to tear a hole.
    • The needle punctured the balloon instantly.
  2. To destroy the vitality or strength of.
    • The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed. Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club

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Words formed from punctured

Phrases with punctured

Questions about punctured

What is punctured the simple past and past participle of?
Punctured is the simple past and past participle of puncture.

Words near punctured in the dictionary

  1. puncture
  2. puncture vine
  3. puncture vines
  4. puncture-wallah
  5. puncture-wallahs
  6. punctured
  7. punctured interval
  8. punctured intervals
  9. punctured neighborhood
  10. punctured neighborhoods
  11. punctureless

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