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• v  make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation
• v  pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
• s  having a hole cut through
  a perforated eardrum
• s  having a number or series of holes
  a perforated steel plate
  perforated cancellation
  perforated stamp

• Tyler and Towle first tried shooting the engine's stream of hot gas through a sheet-metal plate perforated with small holes close together.
• Hands' cause of death was a perforated colon.
• Doctors testified that she was still technically a virgin; her hymen had been only partly perforated.

• punch
• perforate
• penetrate
• pierced
• punctured

News & Articles

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• Review: Geneva Lab Geneva Sound System Model S Wireless
  Apart from several changes to the top controls and the replacement of the top dock with Bluetooth wireless hardware, Model S Wireless looks and feels exactly the same as Model S. After choosing from black, white, or red colors, you still get a 9.25” wide by 5.5” tall by 7” deep lacquered wooden box with a perforated metal front grille and silver base. Four permanently integrated rubber feet or a ...
  June 13, 2013 - iLounge
• Stormwater improvement project restricts parking in BP business district June 12-13
  A project that city leaders hope will put an end to stormwater entering a few basements in Belle Plaine’s business district will get underway Wednesday, June 12. Perforated stormwater pipes, bio-planters and bio-cells on the south side of 12th Street will be lined during the project. These have been the source of basement water woes [...]
  June 12, 2013 - Star Press Union
• iOS 7 banner appears at WWDC venue [u]
  (Updated with OS X banner) Apple is already displaying a banner for iOS 7 in Moscone West in San Francisco, the venue for next week's Worldwide Developers Conference, photos indicate. The banner features a thin "7" in the rainbow colors of the WWDC 2013 logo. Behind the number is an image of a white, perforated surface....        
  June 7, 2013 - MacNN

Quotes

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• Phil Savage in SportingNews.com
  We've made some progress,Savage said. "There's nothing to report today, but we've got a week left until free agency begins. I know people are considering that to be a hard deadline, but in a lot of ways, it's almost a perforated deadline."
• Tun Abdul Razak in New Straits Times
  The skin can't withstand rain, but if we use perforated plastic bags, the fruit will sweat and rot,says Razak.