puncturing

The act by which something is punctured.

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,...
    • 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...

Forms

puncturings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of puncture