puncturing

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of puncture

noun

  1. The act by which something is punctured.
    That the Beatles had not yet found out remained a hallucination with Brian, despite grins exchanged behind his back, and despite John Lennon's occasional brutal puncturings of the masquerade. 2011, Philip Norman, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation
    We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […] 2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction (page 76)

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