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PUNCTURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does punctured mean?
• PUNCTURED (adjective)
The adjective PUNCTURED has 1 sense:
1. having a hole cut through
Familiarity information: PUNCTURED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a hole cut through
Synonyms:
perforate; perforated; pierced; punctured
Context example:
a punctured balloon
Similar:
cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)
Context examples
For exchange of material, for example, proteins and mRNA, it is punctured with numerous nuclear pores.
(Nuclear Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)
Earwax build-up, fluid, or a punctured eardrum can cause it.
(Hearing Disorders and Deafness, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
It did not convey much to me, until I reached a passage where it described small punctured wounds on their throats.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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