perforate
verb (used with object)
to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like.
has perforated
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present perfectof perforate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In some cases where a small wound has perforated the joint capsule, swelling and slight change of relation of the overlying tissues may preclude all successful exploratory probing.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
In its fall, it has perforated a rock.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell
This well has perforated holes in the42 bottom, so that the action of the rain can carry away the dust to still another receptacle, which in time reaches the sea.
From Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
A cruel worm, however, has perforated as far as folio 76; leaving one continued hole behind him.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
To introduce her germs, she has perforated the maggot's paunch, has even done so several times over.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
