puncturing

English

Verb

puncturing

1. present participle and gerund of puncture

Noun

puncturing (countable and uncountable, plural puncturings)

1. 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 […]