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puncturing

puncturing is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

puncturing (countable and uncountable, plural puncturings)

  1. The act by which something is punctured.
    • That the Beatles had not yet found out remained a hallucination with Brian, despite grins exchanged behind his back, and despite John Lennon's occasional brutal puncturings of the masquerade.2011, Philip Norman, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation
    • We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76

Forms of puncturing

pluralpuncturings

Questions about puncturing

What does puncturing mean?
Puncturing means the act by which something is punctured.
What is puncturing the present participle and gerund of?
Puncturing is the present participle and gerund of puncture.
What part of speech is puncturing?
Puncturing is a noun.
What is the plural of puncturing?
The plural of puncturing is puncturings.

Words near puncturing in the dictionary

  1. puncturer
  2. puncturers
  3. punctures
  4. puncturevine
  5. puncturevines
  6. puncturing
  7. puncturings
  8. punctus
  9. punctus circumflexus
  10. punctus elevatus
  11. punctus flexus

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