Puncture is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUNCTURE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pierce with a pointed object
• make a puncture in (something)
• sustain a puncture
• cause a sudden collapse of (mood or feeling)
• To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.
• pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into
• make by piercing
• reduce or lessen the size or importance of
• cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing
• be pierced or punctured
• pierce a hole in
NOUN:
• a small hole in a tyre resulting in an escape of air
• a small hole in something such as the skin, caused by a sharp object
• small hole made by a sharp object, esp in a tyre
• The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.
• A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin.
• loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object
• a small hole made by a sharp object
• the act of puncturing or perforating

Words related to PUNCTURE

puncturable17 punctured14 puncturer13 puncturers14 punctures13 puncturing15

Words that contain PUNCTURE

punctured14 puncturer13 punctures13 puncturers14 acupuncture17 acupunctures18 venepuncture19 venipuncture19 micropuncture21 venepunctures20 venipunctures20 micropunctures22 electropuncture21

How to use PUNCTURE in a sentence

• He was continually adjusting it to his finger in a manner, as he fancied, to render the anticipated puncture more perceptible when it should come at last.
• At last a most unmistakable puncture! the distinct, though slight, pang of a miniature wound.
• The wound was about a couple of inches above the elbow, a small clean puncture right through from side to side.
• Even if the poison and the puncture are discovered, there is no clue.
• He, too, made a low flight, but he was in luck, for they failed seriously to puncture his balloon.
• Either the nail has been found embedded in the horn, or the puncture it has made detected, and the matter has been reported.
• When the puncture is sufficiently large to admit of it, the antiseptic dressing is best applied by means of the probe.
• In the front tire of his bicycle was a puncture, temporarily effaced by a plug.
• If there was one puncture in the Convoy we all had to stop till a spare wheel was put on.
• And undoubtedly a fine flow of currency would result from such a puncture.
• I came up with the Brigade Staff on a common at the top of the succeeding hill, having been delayed by a puncture.
• There we slept comfortably in the lodge of the chateau, all, that is, except Grimers, who had been seized with a puncture just outside the main hotel in Villers-Cotterets.
• A puncture kept me at Bailleul after the others had gone on to Locre.
• A puncture of the skin was sure to be fatal unless some remedy, of whose existence he held no suspicion, was instantly obtainable.
• If you are upholstered with sawdust, keep off the platform, for your own speech will puncture you.
• Especially is this true if the puncture is of small diameter, allowing the tissues to partially close the opening immediately after the wound has been made.
• This necessitates removal of the shoe, if, after a preliminary examination, a puncture is not found, when there is good reason to suspect its presence.
• However, diagnosis of nail puncture is based on the finding of the characteristic wound or resultant local changes.
• Small puncture wounds in the region of the elbow are often met with.
• The puncture is made on the left side, at a point midway between the last rib and hook point, and but a few inches from the backbone.
• Ours, worse luck, always had a puncture somewhere in its internal economy.
• Each clipping or puncture destroys some natural charm.
• And one of the biggest things it has done was to puncture a lot of old-fashioned superstitions and conventions, so that nowadays no sensible person need believe in them.
• His voice would be courteous, his manner of saying it would fairly puncture the air.
• My father may have thought the doctor was about to inflict a vicarious puncture on himself.

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