Definitions for perforate

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perforate per·fo·rate

Spelling: [verb pur-fuh-reyt; adjective Perforate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 313 anagrams from letters in perforate (aeefoprrt).

Definitions for perforate

adjective

1. perforated.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like.
2. to pierce through or to the interior of; penetrate.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a way through or into something; penetrate.

Origin of perforate

1530-40; Latin perforātus, past participle of perforāre to bore² through; see per-

Examples for perforate

In case of a bore, you may retaliate, and perforate in your turn.

They burst, as it were like a breaking wave, against the rocks that perforate the grass.

They perforate the nose and ears, and put various ornaments into them.

It is also advisable to perforate in the south face of the trunk.

In the pelvis the acetabulum is perforate (in Echidna), as in Sauropsida.

There are some galleries which have taken more than 30 years to perforate.

Their only resort, therefore, was to perforate it with their tomahawks.

Sometimes it is content to perforate them with a multitude of little holes.

This custom is only for the men, as the women do not perforate their faces, but only their ears.

What if she perforate her big India-rubber ball with the points of the scissors?