puncturing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of puncture

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act by which something is punctured.

   “That the Beatles had not yet found out remained a hallucination with Brian, despite grins exchanged behind his back, and despite John Lennon's occasional brutal puncturings of the masquerade.”

   “We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]”