perforate

• Abscesses sometimes perforate, causing death. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• It possesses the same properties as the perforate sort, but yields a stronger and more camphoraceous odour when the flowers and the seed vessels are bruised. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• Get it out of your brain-box, for if anything happens to 'Firebrand,' I'll perforate you sure as hell! " —  'Firebrand' Trevison
• One of his calls sounds like "spreele," piped in so piercing a key that it seems almost to perforate your brain. —  Our Bird Comrades
• They perforate the nose and ears, and put various ornaments into them. —  Handbook to the new Gold-fields

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