puncture

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To pierce with a pointed object.
2. v. To make (a hole) by piercing.
3. v. To cause to collapse by piercing.
4. v. To depreciate or deflate: cutting remarks that punctured my ego.
5. v. To be pierced or punctured.
6. n. The act or an instance of puncturing.
7. n. A hole or depression made by a sharp object, especially a hole in an automotive tire.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of perforating or pricking with a pointed instrument, or a small hole made by it; a small wound, as one made by a needle, prickle, or sting: as, the puncture of a lancet, nail, or pin.
2. n. In zoology, a depressed point or dot, as if punctured; a small depression, as if pricked into a surface; a punctum. See cut under Coscinoptera.
3. To prick; pierce with a sharp point of any kind: as, to puncture the skin.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act or an instance of puncturing.
2. n. A hole, cut, or tear created by a sharp object.
3. v. To pierce; to break through; to tear a hole.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.
2. n. A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting.
3. v. To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make by piercing
2. n. loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object
3. v. cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing
4. n. a small hole made by a sharp object
5. v. reduce or lessen the size or importance of
6. n. the act of puncturing or perforating
7. v. be pierced or punctured
8. v. pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into