Puncture Synonyms and Antonyms

pŭngkchər
To make a hole or other opening in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. breach
  2. break
  3. gap
  4. hole
  5. perforate
  6. pierce
Antonyms:
  1. close
  2. sew
A flat tire
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. flat
  2. leak
  3. slow leak
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To pass into or through by overcoming resistance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. perforate
  2. pierce
  3. enter
  4. penetrate
  5. prick
  6. deflate
  7. break
  8. bore
  9. depression
  10. drill
  11. gore
  12. hole
  13. riddle
  14. rupture
  15. slit
  16. stab
  17. vent
  18. wound
Antonyms:
  1. inflate
  2. build up
Hole
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. perforation
  2. cut
  3. break
  4. prick
  5. stab
To cause to be no longer believed or valued
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. debunk
  2. deflate
  3. discredit
  4. explode
  5. shoot down
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Words Related to Puncture

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Puncture Sentence Examples

  • As the nut grows the slight puncture becomes almost obliterated, so that it is unnoticed by all but the most observant eye.

  • The exciting cause of the hypertrophy, in the case of the typical galls, appears to be a minute quantity of some irritating fluid, or virus, secreted by the female insect, and deposited with her egg in the puncture made by her ovipositor in the cortical or foliaceous parts of plants.

  • This secretion is caused by the puncture of an insect, Coccus manniparus.

  • The tubes have walls thicker at the ends than in the middle, as the tendency to puncture the glass is greatest at the edges of the coatings.

  • Insemination takes place either by the introduction of the penis into the cloaca of the female, or by the puncture of the bodywall of the female by the penis, and the injection of the sperm into the body cavity, whence the single spermatozoa must make their way to the eggs.

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