If someone's feelings or beliefs are punctured, their feelings or beliefs are made to seem wrong or foolish, especially when this makes the person feel disappointed or upset. His enthusiasm for fishing had been punctured by the sight of what he might catch. = deflate
A puncture is a small hole in someone's skin that has been made by or with a sharp object. An instrument called a trocar makes a puncture in the abdominal wall
A puncture is a small hole in a car tyre or bicycle tyre that has been made by a sharp object. Somebody helped me mend the puncture. a tyre that has a slow puncture
the act of puncturing or perforating a small hole made by a sharp object loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured"
Term used when a disruptive discharge occurs through a solid dielectric A disruptive discharge in a solid dielectric produces a permanent loss of dielectric strength; in a liquid of gaseous dielectric, the loss may be only temporary