puncture

1. 1.

   loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object

   Broadermishap
2. 2.

   a small hole made by a sharp object

   Broaderhole

   Narrowerpinholepinprick
3. 3.

   the act of puncturing or perforating

   Broaderactivity

   Narrowercentesisperforationprickvenipuncture

Other forms of puncture

plural

punctures·

past tense

punctured·

present participle

puncturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about puncture

What does puncture mean?

puncture means "pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in puncture?

puncture has 2 syllables: punc-ture. The stress falls on "punc". In IPA it is /ˈpʌŋktʃɚ/.

What is another word for puncture?

Close synonyms include deflate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is puncture a common word?

puncture is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with puncture?

1 word rhymes with puncture. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.