puncturing
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]puncturing
- present participle and gerund of puncture
Noun
[edit]puncturing (countable and uncountable, plural puncturings)
- The act by which something is punctured.
- 2011, Philip Norman, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation:
- 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.
- 2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76:
- 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 just a label […]