Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to puncture
Participle: punctured
Gerund: puncturing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | puncture |
| you | puncture |
| he;she;it | punctures |
| we | puncture |
| you | puncture |
| they | puncture |
Perfect
| I | have punctured |
| you | have punctured |
| he;she;it | has punctured |
| we | have punctured |
| you | have punctured |
| they | have punctured |
Past
| I | punctured |
| you | punctured |
| he;she;it | punctured |
| we | punctured |
| you | punctured |
| they | punctured |
Pluperfect
| I | had punctured |
| you | had punctured |
| he;she;it | had punctured |
| we | had punctured |
| you | had punctured |
| they | had punctured |
Future
| I | will puncture |
| you | will puncture |
| he;she;it | will puncture |
| we | will puncture |
| you | will puncture |
| they | will puncture |
Future Perfect
| I | will have punctured |
| you | will have punctured |
| he;she;it | will have punctured |
| we | will have punctured |
| you | will have punctured |
| they | will have punctured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | puncture |
| you | puncture |
| he;she;it | puncture |
| we | puncture |
| you | puncture |
| they | puncture |
Perfect
| I | have punctured |
| you | have punctured |
| he;she;it | have punctured |
| we | have punctured |
| you | have punctured |
| they | have punctured |
Imperfect
| I | punctured |
| you | punctured |
| he;she;it | punctured |
| we | punctured |
| you | punctured |
| they | punctured |
Pluperfect
| I | had punctured |
| you | had punctured |
| he;she;it | had punctured |
| we | had punctured |
| you | had punctured |
| they | had punctured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would puncture |
| you | would puncture |
| he;she;it | would puncture |
| we | would puncture |
| you | would puncture |
| they | would puncture |
Perfect
| I | would have punctured |
| you | would have punctured |
| he;she;it | would have punctured |
| we | would have punctured |
| you | would have punctured |
| they | would have punctured |
Imperative
| you | puncture |
| we | Let's puncture |
| you | puncture |
Verbs conjugated like 'puncture'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'puncture'
cincture,
picture,
punctuate,
tincture,
uncure,
acupuncture,
culture,
denature,
fracture,
lecture,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to pierce something with any long, pointed object
- empierce, fix, impale, pierce, prick, run through, stake, stick, transfix, transpierce
- perforate
- penetrate, pierce, prick, stick, drill, bore, punch, stab
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1392, from L.L. punctura "a pricking," from L. punctus, prop. pp. of pungere "to prick, pierce" (see pungent). The verb is from 1699.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der.
4. Proto-Italic *pungō
5. Latin pungō
6. Latin pūnctus
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
8. Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
9. Latin -tūra
10. Late Latin punctūrabor.
11. English puncture
12. Borrowed from Late Latin punctūra.
Sample Sentences
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The needle punctured the balloon instantly.
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The couple all bloody / Tongues punctured by each other's teeth / Died and didn't let go [2013, clipping., “story”, in midcity:]
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The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed. Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism. [2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club:]