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/pˈəŋktʃər/ /pˈəŋkʃər/ Listen

noun

Puncture n.

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. "A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp."

verb

Puncture v. t. (past & past part. punctured; pres. part. puncturing) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.

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Etymology of 'Puncture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Puncture" Quotes from Famous Books

... case waggled a meter needle at him. The one relieving factor was the low gravity; on an asteroid, the problem of sleeping on a bed of nails is caused by the likelihood of accidentally throwing oneself off the bed. The probability of puncture or discomfort from the points ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... by their mutual pressures, an impassable dam at the root of the organ. That this is the true condition has been more than once verified from the instant relief given to the whole condition by the prompt employment of the supra-pubic puncture or aspiration, as catheterization in such cases is altogether out of the question, and should never be attempted or employed unless a soft catheter can ...

— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

... before been abated by medicine; and the young man, at the time of his attendance at the tomb, was using a lotion of laudanum. And, what is a still more material part of the case, the inflammation, after some interval, returned. Another case was that of a young man who had lost his sight by the puncture of an awl, and the discharge of the aqueous humour through the wound. The sight, which had been gradually returning, was much improved during his visit to the tomb, that is, probably in the same degree in which ...

— Evidences of Christianity • William Paley

... the king exclaimed, "There is the man who wounded me, with his hat-on; arrest him, but let no harm be done him!" The guards were already upon the murderer and were torturing him pending the legal question. The king had been carried away, slightly wounded by a deep puncture from a penknife. In the soul of Louis XV. apprehension had succeeded to the first instinctive and kingly impulse of courage; he feared the weapon might be poisoned, and hastily sent for a confessor. The crowd of courtiers was already thronging to the dauphin's. ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... him securely bound," said Hamilton. "Confine him. We'll see how long it will take to refresh his mind. We'll puncture ...

— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

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