perforate

verb

1. (transitive)To pierce; to penetrate.
2. (transitive)To make a line of holes in (a thin material) to allow separation at the line.

   “to perforate a sheet of postage stamps”

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Perforated.

   “An Earthen Pot perforate at the Bottom to let in the Plant.”

2. (not-comparable, obsolete)Perforated, having a hole.

   “Suche abuses can not be longe hydde frome princis, that haue their eares perforate (as is the prouerbe).”

3. (not-comparable)Perforated.

   “A species of remarkable appearance with mature leaf laminae often so profoundly perforate as to resemble a fragile net of tissue.”