puncture

The act or an instance of puncturing.

A hole, cut, or tear created by a sharp object.

There were two small punctures in his arm where the snake's fangs had pierced the skin.

The lion may perish by the puncture of an asp.

A hole in a vehicle's tyre, causing the tyre to deflate.

On the way back we got a puncture, and we were stuck at the roadside for three hours until help arrived.

Dieter's car had suffered a puncture on the RN3 road between Paris and Meaux. A bent nail was stuck in the tire.

To pierce; to break through; to tear a hole.

The needle punctured the balloon instantly.

The couple all bloody / Tongues punctured by each other's teeth / Died and didn't let go

To destroy the vitality or strength of.

The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed. Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.