Puncture
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English
Noun
Puncture (plural Punctures)- A hole, cut, or tear created by a sharp object.
- I got a puncture in my bicycle tire and had to walk home.
- 2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, ISBN 0525946284, page 340,
- Dieter's car had suffered a puncture on the RN3 road between Paris and Meaux. A bent nail was stuck in the tire.
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Puncture (third-person singular simple present punctures, present participle puncturing, simple past and past participle punctured)
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Thesaurus
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Latin
Participle
punctūre
- vocative masculine singular of punctūrus
