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Punctuate
- verb - insert punctuation marks into
- interrupt periodically; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone"
- to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
Punctured
- verb - be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured"
- cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing; "puncture an air balloon"
- having a hole cut through; "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon"
- make by piercing; "puncture a hole"
- pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into; "puncture a tire"
- reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
Punctures
- noun - a small hole made by a sharp object
- be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured"
- cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing; "puncture an air balloon"
- loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object
- make by piercing; "puncture a hole"
- pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into; "puncture a tire"
- reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
- the act of puncturing or perforating
Pungapung
- noun - putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber
Pungently
- adverb - with a pungent taste or smell; "the soup was pungently flavored"
- with pungency; in a pungent manner; "he wrote pungently about his contemporaries"
Punic War
- noun - one of the three wars between Carthage and Rome that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and its annexation by Rome; 264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 149-146 BC
Punishing
- verb - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
- resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
Punk Rock
- noun - rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
Punnology
- - The art or practice of punning; paronomasia.