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Punctured   /pˈəŋktʃərd/  /pˈəŋkʃərd/   Listen
Punctured

adjective
1.
Having a hole cut through.  Synonyms: perforate, perforated, pierced.  "A perforated eardrum" , "A punctured balloon"


Puncture

verb
(past & past part. punctured; pres. part. puncturing)
1.
Pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into.
2.
Make by piercing.
3.
Reduce or lessen the size or importance of.  Synonym: deflate.
4.
Cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing.
5.
Be pierced or punctured.



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"Punctured" Quotes from Famous Books



... While Betallion punctured the eggs with a platinum needle and developed them by means of electric discharges, Loeb in America placed eggs of the sea-urchin in a strong solution of sea water, then in a bath where they were ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... then he was compelled to relinquish his option on the steamship line he had partly purchased, and to sacrifice all that had been paid in on the enterprise. This, too, made a big story for the newspapers, for it punctured one of the most imposing corporations in the famous "Gordon System." It likewise threatened to involve the others in the general crash. Hope Consolidated, indeed, still remained, and Gordon's declaration that the value of its shares ...
— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach
... to dodge a knot of pedestrians, but their pace never slackened. Then the rearmost of the two began to buck and almost leap off the roadway. There came a rattle and roar from the rear wheels which told that the tires had been punctured and that the heavy wheels were riding on their rims, cutting the deflated tubes. At a cross street the first car turned, just in time to avoid a truck, and dodged down a maze of side streets, but the second ran squarely ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve
... hole denoted its having been there. Athos, by following with his eye the pins and holes, saw that D'Artagnan had taken the direction of the south, and gone as far as the Mediterranean, toward Toulon. It was near Cannes that the marks and the punctured places ceased. The Comte de la Fere puzzled his brains for some time, to divine what the musketeer could be going to do at Cannes, and what motive could have led him to examine the banks of the Var. The reflections of Athos suggested ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... such an odd idea come into your head?" asked pretty Nellie Tyrrell, whose dancing black eyes were the most piquant of interrogation points, with which it was so delightful to be punctured that people were generally slow to gratify ...
— The Old Folks' Party - 1898 • Edward Bellamy


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