Word Meanings - PERFORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERFORATE)

• Bore
• Perforate
• pierce
• weary
• penetrate
• Pierce
• bore
• drill
• excite
• affect
• rouse
• touch
• move
• enter
• stab
• transfix
• Punch
• poke
• puncture
• terebrate

Related words: (words related to PERFORATE)

• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• PUNCHER
  One who, or that which, punches.
• PUNCTURE
  1. The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed. 2. A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. Rambler.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• ENTEROLITH
  An intestinal concretion.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• PUNCHY
  Short and thick, or fat.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• PUNCHINELLO
  A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator. (more info) of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• ENTEROTOMY
  Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• MESENTERY
  The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REENTERING
  The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• ANENTEROUS
  Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• TRANSPIERCE
  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• UNWEARY
  To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.