The puncture wound was very deep and had to be examined for infection.
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Puncture
//ˈpʌŋktʃə//
Synonyms for "puncture" (252 found)
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Strong matches (75)
Related words (126)
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1 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
79 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- ثُقْب noun (hole, cut or tear)
- ثُقْب noun (hole, cut or tear)
- خُرق noun (hole, cut or tear)
- فَتْحَة noun (hole, cut or tear)
Bulgarian
4 entries- дупчица noun (hole, cut or tear)
- пробив noun (hole, cut or tear)
- пробивам verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- пробождам verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Catalan
1 entries- perforar verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 刺孔 noun (hole, cut or tear)
- 戳破 noun (hole, cut or tear)
Dutch
1 entries- puncteren verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Esperanto
1 entries- trui noun (hole, cut or tear)
Finnish
3 entries- reikä noun (hole, cut or tear)
- rengasrikko noun (hole, cut or tear)
- puhkaista verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
French
4 entries- crevaison noun (hole, cut or tear)
- perforation noun (hole, cut or tear)
- piqûre noun (hole, cut or tear)
- perforer verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Galician
3 entries- esfuracar verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- furar verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- perforar verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
German
4 entries- Einstich noun (hole, cut or tear)
- Reifenpanne noun (hole, cut or tear)
- durchstechen verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- punktieren verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Hebrew
2 entries- נקר noun (hole, cut or tear)
- תקר noun (hole, cut or tear)
Hungarian
4 entries- felszúrás noun (hole, cut or tear)
- lyuk noun (hole, cut or tear)
- lyukasztás noun (hole, cut or tear)
- szúrás noun (hole, cut or tear)
Indonesian
1 entries- tusukan noun (hole, cut or tear)
Italian
1 entries- puntura noun (hole, cut or tear)
Japanese
2 entries- パンク noun (hole, cut or tear)
- 刺すこと noun (hole, cut or tear)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- lāp verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Khmer
1 entries- ការចាក់ noun (hole, cut or tear)
Latin
2 entries- pūnctūra noun (hole, cut or tear)
- pungō verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഊട്ട noun (hole, cut or tear)
Māori
4 entries- oka verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- paoka verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- poka verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- tioka verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Nanai
1 entries- локпа verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Portuguese
2 entries- perfuração noun (hole, cut or tear)
- punctura noun (hole, cut or tear)
Russian
3 entries- проко́л noun (hole, cut or tear)
- прока́лывать verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- проколо́ть verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Santali
1 entries- ᱨᱳᱜ verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- toll noun (hole, cut or tear)
Spanish
4 entries- pinchazo noun (hole, cut or tear)
- ponchadura noun (hole, cut or tear)
- compungir verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- espichar verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Swahili
1 entries- panchari noun (hole, cut or tear)
Swedish
4 entries- punktera noun (hole, cut or tear)
- sticka hål noun (hole, cut or tear)
- punktera verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
- sticka hål på verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Tamil
1 entries- குத்து verb (to pierce — see also pierce)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Changing a puncture gives a lot of work.
Source: tatoeba (1220391)
Wet the surface of the tire, and note the bubbles that form under the film of water, and the puncture is found.
Source: tatoeba (8811188)
They are asking whether I can fix a bicycle puncture? That should be no problem at all.
Source: tatoeba (10020621)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.