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Punctured

adjective

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

Puncture

verb

(past & past part. punctured; pres. part. puncturing)

Pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into.

Make by piercing.

Reduce or lessen the size or importance of. Synonym: deflate.

Cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing.

Be pierced or punctured.

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"Punctured" Quotes from Famous Books

... that essential incognito of his punctured, his vanity touched to the quick—all that laboriously constructed edifice of art and chicane which yesterday had seemed so substantial, so impregnable a wall between the Lone Wolf and the World, to-day rent, torn asunder, and cast down in ruins about his feet—Lanyard wasted time neither in profitless ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... of swine is a great people going into a great war, God help us! Beasts—it's not as if their bloated skins were likely to be punctured." ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... came abreast of the bunk house the Sabbath calm was punctured by the tart and careless speech of Sandy Sawtelle, a top rider of the Arrowhead, for he, too, was knitting, or had been. On a stool outside the doorway he held up an unfinished thing before his grieved eyes and devoutly wished it in the ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... to avoid an encounter in the forest, even though their weapons were much superior to those carried by the Chan Santa Cruz so far as rapid work was concerned. Unless struck in some vital part, the chances are in favor of recovery from a bullet wound; but let the skin be punctured ever so slightly by arrows poisoned with the venom of the snake known as the nahuyaca and death is ...

— The Search for the Silver City - A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan • James Otis

... particularly good, for the Archie people have the exact range of the low clouds slightly above us. Three times we hear the hiss of flying fragments of high explosive, and the lower left plane is unevenly punctured. We lose height for a second to gather speed, and then, to my relief, the pilot zooms up to a cloud. Although the gunners can no longer see their target, they loose off a few more rounds and trust to luck that a stray shell may find us. These bursts ...

— Cavalry of the Clouds • Alan Bott

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