verb
definition
To pierce; to break through; to tear a hole.
example
The needle punctured the balloon instantly.
Examples of punctured in a Sentence
He felt each arrow as if it punctured his body instead of hers.
Would you replace a punctured tire or call for help?
Dusty obeyed and punctured deep into his jugular.
She didn't feel his fangs sink into her, but she heard the sound of punctured flesh.
She rolled slowly until she was on the floor, wedged between the bench and the punctured floor of the helo.
How will he protect the plastic tubing so it never becomes punctured or broken, creating a leak?
If the camper has furniture or seats, check the cushions to make sure they are in good condition and not torn or punctured.
The heel is then punctured with a lancet, avoiding the center of the heel, in order to prevent inflammation of the bone.
Origami shapes are not cut, punctured, or marked during the folding process.
Bill said one of the limbs of the tree had gone through the roof over Carmen's bedroom – all the way down and punctured her mattress.
His remark punctured a hole in her thin armor and she exploded, slamming the papers onto her desktop so hard that one of the pages floated to the floor.
According to Hinds they feed chiefly on the green tissues, which " are punctured by the piercing mouth-parts and the sap withdrawn by suction.
Pieces of paper punctured with small holes are placed over the trays in which the hatching goes on; and the worms, immediately they burst their shell, creep through these openings to the light, and thereby scrape off any fragments of shell which, adhering to the skin, would kill them by constriction.
Yet it cannot be too constantly urged that such filtration depends for its comparative perfection upon the surface film; that this surface film is not present when the filter is new, or when its materials have been recently washed; that it may be, and very often is, punctured by the actual working of the filters, or for the purpose of increasing their discharge; and that at the best it must be regarded as an exceedingly thin line of defence, not to be depended upon as a safeguard against highly polluted waters, if a purer source of supply can possibly be found.
Here is a two dimensional slice through the Teichmüller space of the twice punctured torus drawn with some of the pleating rays.
They are bright, iridescent, golden-green or bluish-coloured beetles (see Coleoptera), with the breast finely punctured and pubescent, head and thorax with a longitudinal channel, and elytra with two slightly elevated lines.
The second time, he punctured a lung in a biking accident.
Bring them back, Dusty said, not understanding how Darian had punctured a hole between the mortal and immortal worlds.
Bill said one of the limbs of the tree had gone through the roof over Carmen's bedroom – all the way down and punctured her mattress.
The next step is to compute the homomorphism induced by inclusion of the circle as the boundary of the respective punctured surface.
However his career was nearly curtailed by a punctured lung suffered against Hull City in January 1999.
The larch remains free from parasitism so long as its covering is intact, but as soon as this is punctured by insects, or its continuity interfered with by cracks or fissures, the Peziza penetrates, and before long brings about the destruction of the branch.
Scratch testing, in which the skin is scratched instead of punctured, is used less often, but the principle is the same.
When you place the pod in the coffee maker, the top and bottom of the pod are punctured while hot water is forced into the top of the pod.
There are also a few issues with those made using water or gel, the biggest being if the form is accidentally punctured.
They result in deep, narrowed pits within the skin, and are thusly named because the skin may appear as though it has been punctured by an ice pick or similarly sharp object.
By the midway point both Colin Shearer and James Melville had punctured reducing the chasing bunch to 4 riders.
The knife had punctured his right lung, deflating it.