Puncture: alternatives and connections

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Created; composed; begotten.

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To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprov…

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To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.

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Whole.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

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Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.

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Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.

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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.

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The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.

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That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

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of Prick

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To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller ve…

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To reduce from an inflated condition.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.