Definition of "puncturing"

puncturing

verb
1. present participle and gerund of puncture
noun
countable and uncountable, plural puncturings
1. The act by which something is punctured.
  Quotations
  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.
  2011, Philip Norman, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation
  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 […]
  2013, Stephen Mumford, ‎Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction (page 76)