puncturen.
/ˈpʌŋ(k)tʃə/, U.S. /ˈpəŋ(k)(t)ʃər/ 1.
a. The action of penetrating or perforating something with a sharply pointed object or instrument; pricking, piercing; the fact of having been penetrated or perforated in this way; (esp.) an instance of this.With quot. 1893, cf. sense 1b.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > puncturing
puncturea1400
punction?a1425
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > with sharp-pointed instrument > pricking
pointurea1393
puncturea1400
pouncingc1410
punction?a1425
pointing1440
pinpricking1706
acupuncture1875
pinholing1879
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 16 If þat he be woundid in þe heed eiþer haue ony puncture [L. puncturam] of ony senewe.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 5 (MED) Of wondes of nerues and cordes & of ligamentz, of which is treted of puncture, i. pricking, of neruez.
c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 150v (MED) It nediþ a more strongere & a deppere sewynge but if þer be ony drede of þe puncture of þe sewynge.
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. E2v The pressure of my haires, or the puncture of my heart, standes at the seruice of your sollide perfections.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iii. 75 The Loadstone of Laurentius Guascus, wherewith..whatsoever needles..were touched, the wounds and punctures made thereby, were never felt. View more context for this quotation
1708 Brit. Apollo 16–21 July A Puncture with a Pix.
1765 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 157 The king of Denmark,..afflicted with a dropsical disorder, underwent..the operation of the puncture.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 48/1 A slight puncture will let out all the wind in the bladders.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 153 The galls were the produce of the puncture of an insect.
1893 Cycling 28 Jan. 48/3 The specially thick outer cover renders burst or puncture practically impossible.
1904 Lancet 20 Aug. 564/2 Recovery has often taken place after simple laparotomy, together with exploratory puncture.
1940 N. J. Eastman Expectant Motherhood vii. 111 Other methods of inducing labor, sometimes used in association with castor oil, sometimes alone, are hypodermic injections of pituitrin..and artificial puncture of the bag of waters.
1956 F. L. Goodenough Exceptional Children xxiv. 337 The removal of wax or other obstructive material and drainage by puncture of the eardrum.
2000 N.Y. Times 17 Nov. a11 It [sc. the Mir space station] weathered blackouts, fires, computer crashes, cracks in its hull and even a puncture by a wayward space tanker.
b. spec. An instance of having accidentally made or sustained a small hole in a pneumatic tyre (on a bicycle, car, etc.), resulting in an escape of air.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated > accidental hole allowing escape of air
puncture1893
slow puncture1896
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rubber or pneumatic tyre > puncture
puncture1892
puncture1893
1893 Atlanta Constit. 9 May (advt.) Rambler bicycles have the best inner tube pneumatic tires on earth... Resilient to perfection, and a puncture is almost impossible.
1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 109 Miss Stokes had a puncture. ‘Let me wheel the rattler,’ said Albert.
1988 Bella 4 Apr. 10/2 When we had a puncture, he saw it as a great opportunity for me to practise my new-found skills.
2002 Independent 15 Apr. (Review section) 3/4 When lovely blonde bicyclist so-and-so had a puncture in the Royal Parks, the Queen Mother's gatekeeper gallantly came to her assistance.
c. Medicine. The withdrawal of fluid or tissue from the body through a hollow needle, esp. as a diagnostic procedure; an instance of this. Cf. venepuncture n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > puncture > [noun]
puncturation1876
puncture1895
1895 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Apr. Suppl. 65/2 Fürbringer..recalls how Quincke, in 1891, at Wiesbaden, made known his method of lumbar puncture in cases of meningitis of various kinds.
1903 Lancet 22 Aug. 551/2 Blood obtained by puncture of a vein..yielded the tubercle bacillus on cultivation.
1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xiii. 169 Cerebro-spinal fluid is obtained by either lumbar, cisternal or ventricular puncture.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 25 Jan. 195/2 The pressure and oxygen saturation of blood in the pulmonary artery must be determined, usually requiring the special Radner technic of percutaneous puncture of the pulmonary artery.
2001 Daily Tel. 2 Nov. 25/6 The first and immediate problem was my squeamishness—too many lumbar punctures, drips and even acupuncture had made me needle-phobic.
2.
a. A hole, wound, or mark made by pricking or perforation.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > puncture wound
prickOE
puncture?a1425
eyelet hole1599
puncture wound1836
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated > made with a sharp-pointed instrument > a prick
prickOE
pointc1392
puncture?a1425
pinprick1755
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 51 (MED) Þise causez be made of bodiez inanimate, as swerd, staffe, stone..Or of animate, as of puncture [Lation punctura] of venenous bestez & morsure of wilde bestez.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 85 (MED) Jn þe fifþe doctrine..it is tretid of þe bitynge of a scorpioun..where þu schalt vndirstonden þat þis is riȝt venymous, and his puncture is so sutil þat it may vnneþis be seen.
1565 J. Hall tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. i. i. 4 If there be any Puncture in the sinewes.
1569 R. Androse tr. ‘Alessio’ 4th Bk. Secretes ii. 22 To heale the prickings or cuttings of sinewes. Take Salt and boyle it in oyle..and so laye it vpon the punture, and it will prohibit shrinking.
1610 E. Gardiner Triall Tabacco 49 I doe make..of Tabacco an excellent balsame to cure deepe wounds, and punctures, made by some narrow,..sharpe pointed weapon.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xii. 251 The female Aspe hath foure, but the male two teeth, whereby it left this impression, or double puncture behinde it.
1721 Disc. conc. Plague 21 Each of these punctures begins to inflame, and rises up into a great boil.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 391 His corpulence, his colour, and his punctures [sc. tattoo marks]..were very distinguishing marks of his rank.
1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing vii. 398 Making new scratches or punctures with the etching-needle.
1897 B. Stoker Dracula x. 126 Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking.
1929 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 2 June The female is able to drill..small pinhole-like breaks or punctures in the skin of fruits, and through these punctures she lays her eggs.
1980 J. B. Hilton Anathema Stone xxi. 198 If it hadn't been for him, I'd have..punctures all the way up my arm.
2002 Fine Woodworking May–June 92/3 For small veneer repairs, I often use cyanoacrylate glue injected through a tiny puncture.
b. Chiefly Entomology and Botany. A minute rounded depression or hole in a surface, resembling a pinprick. Cf. punctum n. 3a.In quot. 1769: a small spot or dot; cf. puncture v. 1b.
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1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1421 The Coral of this seems not to differ from No. 5... The punctures or holes are deeper and more obvious.
1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 119 Shells diaphanous, white, with black punctures on the edges.
1828 C. Darwin Let. Oct. in Corr. (1985) I. 66 I have also sent a few insects, a Carabus with 6 punctures—taken at Maer.
1843 C. C. Babington Man. Bot. 58 L[eaves] oblong-lanceolate with..scattered black dots on both sides and pellucid punctures.
1916 M. A. Carleton Small Grains xviii. 491 This species resembles the granary weevil..but differs in being dull brown in color, the thorax densely pitted with round punctures.
1992 Coleopterists Bull. 46 113 All surfaces densely punctate, with coarse punctures.
c. A hole accidentally made in a pneumatic tyre (cf. sense 1b).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rubber or pneumatic tyre > puncture
puncture1892
puncture1893
1892 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 10 June 5/4 (advt.) The tire does not blow up and a puncture is a pleasure to mend instead of a terror.
1954 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 July 8/2 Goodrich tires have a further sealant—an extra layer of butyl in a gummy form which flows into and seals a puncture after the puncturing object is removed.
2000 P. Vincent Mountain Bike Maintenance 29/1 Locate the puncture and roughen the surface of the inner tube using sandpaper.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > prompting of
stirring?c1225
motionc1390
puncture?a1425
movementc1485
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > pricking or tingling
prickinga1398
tinglinga1450
punction1596
dindling1597
compunction1604
punto1617
prickling1656
sharpness1694
puncture1709
puncturation1733
pins and needles1813
tingle1832
pringling1890
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 37v (MED) He feleþ within þe eie puncture [?c1425 Paris a prycchynge; Latin puncturam] & mordicacioun as if þer war grauel within it.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 118 (MED) Þe enpostume is scharpe in figure & scharpenesse of akkeþ & puncture & redenesse declinynge to citrinite.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant ii. ii. 132 Although he feels no sensual punctures and natural sharpnesses of desire.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 36. ⁋4 Our Africanus lives in the continual Puncture of aching Bones and poisoned Juices.
1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett III. cxxvi. 116 Henry felt the puncture of a want which even Emma could not accommodate.
a. A sharp point or edge. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > knife, lancet, or scalpel > point of
puncture1598
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 17 b/2 A hollowe knife... The puncture or poyncte of the same.
b. Botany. A prickly point on a surface. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > appearance of plant > defined by texture > [noun] > puncture or point on surface
puncture1776
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 385 Scabrum, rough, covered with rigid Punctures raised above the Surface.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, objective, and limitative, as puncture method, puncture-proof, puncture repair, etc.
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1878 Proc. Royal Soc. 27 57 To ascertain whether by the puncture method the blood-vessels really become injected, another gland was injected with Berlin blue.
1893 Cycling 15 July 448/2 By all means have puncture proof tubes.
1907 Daily Chron. 12 Oct. 9/4 As an outcome of the plethora of cheap tyres attention has been re-directed towards puncture-preventing devices.
1908 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 24 June 13/3 (advt.) Auto Time Saver outfits for puncture repair. Agents wanted.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xiv. 366 In such tumours the method of puncture diagnosis has recently come into vogue.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 464/1 A fibreglass-resin patch is all that is needed to plug puncture holes.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 28 Mar. b1/1 Needles and other sharp items were not always discarded in puncture-proof containers.
2006 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 16 Sept. 6 From a time when a puncture repair outfit and a tin of light bulbs were carried as part of a motorbike's kit.
C2.
puncture mark n. a mark resulting from penetration of the skin and underlying tissue, esp. by a hypodermic injection.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of injection
needle mark1855
puncture mark1859
needle track1888
hit-mark1962
needle scar1962
track1964
1859 in A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives V. 237 Some relate that two faint puncture-marks were found on Cleopatra's arm, and to this account Cæsar seems to have given credit.
1927 D. L. Sayers Unnatural Death xxiii. 274 Will you go down to the mortuary again and see if you can find any puncture mark on the body.
2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane vi. 134 Heroin..was no longer the exclusive junk of emaciated squatters with puncture marks running the length of their arms.
puncture vine n. U.S. a plant, Tribulus terrestris (family Zygophyllaceae), with long sprawling stems, yellow flowers, and spiny fruits, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Old World and now widely naturalized in North America where it is often regarded as an invasive weed.
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1920 Calif. Dept. Agric. Monthly Bull. Aug. 330 The puncture vine, Tribulus terrestris, was probably introduced into the United States from the Mediterranean region in ships' ballast.
1961 A. S. Leopold Desert 57 (caption) The spurs of the puncture-vine fruit push out from the skin and are so sharp that they can pierce a bicycle tire.
2003 Star-Herald (Scottsbluff, Nebraska) 15 June 4/3 Keeping the invaders out meant..kneeling between the rows pulling pigweed, milkweed and puncture vines.
puncture wound n. a wound resulting from penetration of the skin and underlying tissue (or occasionally the surface of another organ) by a thin, sharp instrument or object.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > puncture wound
prickOE
puncture?a1425
eyelet hole1599
puncture wound1836
1836 Times 1 Apr. 4/3 There was a small puncture wound under the left arm, which must have been inflicted with a very small instrument.
1929 Amer. Jrnl. Pathol. 5 452 The microglial reaction around a sterile puncture wound of the cerebrum.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 156/2 In the summer of 1966, a hairy, catlike animal..killed a number of animals and pets,..bleeding the carcasses dry through puncture wounds.
Derivatives
ˈpunctureless adj. without punctures; (of a tyre) that cannot be punctured.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Punctureless, in entom., without punctures; smooth.
1896 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 7 May 7/5 He rides a peculiar wheel with punctureless tyre.
1917 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1916 68 368 The punctureless apical area on first abdominal segment is extremely narrow.
1999 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 27/5 The flamboyant British inventor Gordon McNally (punctureless tyres and croupier-free roulette machines).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
puncturev.
/ˈpʌŋ(k)tʃə/, U.S. /ˈpəŋ(k)(t)ʃər/ 1. † b. transitive. Chiefly Zoology. To mark with small spots or dots. Usually in passive. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To make a puncture in; to pierce with a sharp point; to prick; to perforate. Also: to make a puncture in the tyre of (a bicycle or its rider). Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > puncture > [verb (transitive)]
puncture1675
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > by sharp-pointed instrument > by pricking
puncture1675
prick1678
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed
shearOE
sting993
stickOE
spita1225
wound?c1225
stitchc1230
pitcha1275
threstc1275
forprick1297
steekc1300
piercec1325
rivec1330
dag?a1400
jag?a1400
lancec1400
pickc1400
tamec1400
forpierce1413
punch1440
launch1460
thringc1485
empiercec1487
to-pierce1488
joba1500
ding1529
stob?1530
probe1542
enthrill1563
inthirlc1580
cloy1590
burt1597
pink1597
lancinate1603
perterebrate1623
puncture1675
spike1687
skiver1832
bepierce1840
gimlet1841
prong1848
javelin1859
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > puncture
through-stingeOE
wound?c1225
tamec1400
forpierce1413
punchc1425
traversea1522
punge1570
puncture1896
1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London xvii. 205 When a Nerve is punctured, or cut asunder..it's only apt to be surprized with a very great pain.
1706 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 6) v. 95 With that he drew a Lancet in full Rage, To puncture the still supplicating Sage.
1793 W. Weldon (title) Observation on the different modes of puncturing the bladder, in cases of retention of urine.
1807 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. I. i. xiii. 54 When a large artery is only punctured, and not cut through.
1856 C. Mackay Lump of Gold iii. 56 His youthful heart That Sorrow had not dulled with apathy, Or punctured with the poisonous gall of hate.
1893 Cycling 1 July 401 I'm punctured! Have you got a repairing outfit?
1896 Daily News 4 Dec. 2/1 I punctured the tire within one mile of the start.
1914 J. D. Sawyer How to make Country Place iii. 93 One main object in life being to puncture the skin of some less active insect and oviposit their death eggs.
1943 Triumphs of Engin. 182/2 Wandering Arabs..have amused themselves by digging down to the pipe-line, puncturing it with bullets and setting fire to the squirting oil.
1959 J. Verney Friday's Tunnel xxiv. 214 Friday's livid because he thinks you've punctured his bike.
1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 108/2 The infant's toe was punctured with a disposable lancet.
2000 Canoeist Apr. 23/2 His wetsuit boot had been punctured by the edge of the broken drainage pipe.
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1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 160 Like the last, except that the Antennæ are shorter, and the veins of the Wings punctured with brown.
1818 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1 411 Elytra obscure, punctured irregularly with green.
1860 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders vi. 82 The Narwal..is of a grey-white colour, punctured with many white spots.
c. transitive. To tattoo (a person or a part of the body). Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > beautify (the body) [verb (transitive)] > tattoo the body
pounce1555
pink1611
tattoo1769
puncture1777
tat1982
the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > speckle
powderc1380
besprenga1425
prick1530
sprinkle1551
peckle1570
speckle1570
speck1580
pepper?1605
pounce1610
freckle1613
freck1621
stipplea1774
punctuate1777
dot1784
puncture1848
bespeckle1860
prickle1888
tick1910
1777 J. Cook Voy. S. Pole I. ii. vii. 281 A middle-aged man, punctured from head to foot, and his face painted with a sort of white pigment, appeared with a spear in his hand.
1784 J. Douglas Cook's Voy. Pacific II. iii. ix. 176 They differ in being of a darker colour, with a fiercer aspect, and differently punctured.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vi. vi. 118 His bare, brawny throat was curiously punctured with sundry devices.
1859 J. C. Curtis Elem. Hist. Eng. (1874) 5 All the Britons punctured their bodies.
1909 Amer. Anthropologist 11 368 The fact that tilé (lumps of soot, tattoo-ink) were made and used in large quantities indicates the extent of the practice. Children were punctured.
d. transitive. figurative. To cause to collapse in the manner of a punctured balloon, tyre, etc.; to deflate; to debunk.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
1875 J. W. de Forrest Honest John Vane xvii. 177 The prosperity of these knaves had not punctured his soap-bubble honesty.
1888 Scribner's Mag. Nov. 548 The brakeman who is not able to puncture the sophistries of narrow-souled or disingenuous superiors is the exception.
1908 Hibbert Jrnl. Apr. 633 [He] may..touch [him]..with satire and even puncture him with epithet.
1927 Scribner's Mag. Apr. 450b/2 There is certain value in puncturing the Washington myth which the school histories used to teach.
1974 Economist 7 Sept. 16 It is time to puncture the continuing Greek accusation.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 8 Dec. 67/3 As if sexual innuendo weren't enough to puncture the character's facade of apple-pie wholesomeness.
e. transitive. To interrupt at intervals; to punctuate with. rare.
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the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt (speech) [verb (transitive)]
forbreakc1374
interrupta1420
recoupc1450
lardc1550
interturb1554
intercept1581
parenthese1635
punctuate1848
puncture1896
1896 C. M. Sheldon His Brother's Keeper xi. 337 The major..made a rattling speech, punctured with frequent amens and hallelujahs from the rest of the army.
2002 Total Film Mar. 114/2 A man who loved ‘twisting melons’, hated ‘fucking suits’ and punctured his three marriages with literally thousands of ‘fuck-flings’.
2. transitive. To make (a hole) by pricking or piercing. Cf. earlier punctured adj. 2.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > by boring, piercing, or perforating
piercec1392
bore?1523
drive?a1525
thirl1609
drill1669
perforate1777
stick1834
puncture1851
sieve1875
pin1897
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxvi. 179 Whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes punctured in his starboard fluke,..he shall have this gold ounce.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 701 A hole is punctured by a fine needle in the bladder.
1915 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 4 July In their earliest form they [sc. needles] were probably only strong thorns..for puncturing holes through which to draw the thread.
1974 ‘J. Herriot’ Vet in Harness (1975) xxxi. 215 The jaws of the instrument clicked together, puncturing a small round hole in the hard tissue.
1999 Airforces Monthly Oct. 74/1 A bird strike caused a de-icing boot from the port propeller to detach and puncture two holes in the fuselage.
3. intransitive. Of a pneumatic tyre, or a vehicle running on such tyres: to sustain a puncture. Also with the rider or driver of a vehicle as subject (chiefly colloquial, now rare).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > move on wheels [verb (passive)] > get a puncture
puncture1891
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > move on wheels [verb (intransitive)] > become deflated (of pneumatic tyres) > get a puncture
puncture1891
1891 N.Y. Times 22 Sept. Searle's front tire punctured near Westfield on the fifty-fifth mile.
1893 Cycling 15 Apr. 226/3 It was agreed that whoever punctured stood drinks round.
1940 V. Woolf Writer's Diary 6 Apr. (1953) 331 I..brooded quietly till the tyre punctured: we had to jackal in mid-road.
1975 Country Life 4 Dec. 1529/2 Many cars suffered... Cowan punctured and spun.
2006 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 10 Jan. 18 The car punctured in the next round but recorded two top 10 finishes.
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