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/pˈərfərˌeɪt/ Listen

Perforate

verb

(past & past part. perforated; pres. part. perforating)

Make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation. Synonym: punch.

Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance. Synonym: penetrate.

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"Perforate" Quotes from Famous Books

... intelligent principle: from this organ, white, soft, and medullary threads, called nerves, are sent off to different parts of the body: some of them proceed immediately from the brain to their destined places, while the greater number, united together, perforate the skull, and enter the cavity of the backbone, forming what we call the spinal marrow, which may be regarded as a continuation of the brain. Portions of the spinal marrow pass through different apertures to ...

— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia - Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease • Thomas Garnett

... gives a single ill-judged bite. If it gnaws at the spot where I myself operated with my needle wrought into a scalpel, its victuals will very soon turn putrid. Once more, then, we witness an absolute refusal to perforate the skin of the victim elsewhere than at the very point where the egg ...

— More Hunting Wasps • J. Henri Fabre

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