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Meanings of perforate in English

Portuguese
perfurar
Catalan
penetrar
Spanish
profundizar

To pass into or through.

        perfurar
        Portuguese
        furar
        Catalan
        picar

        To make a hole or several holes into something, such as a sheet of paper to be filed away.

              furar

              Having a hole cut through.

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                    Usage of perforate in English
                    1
                    The stars in this specimen are more numerous, and do not perforate.
                    Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
                    2
                    Casks of wood are unsuited for African travel; small beetles perforate them.
                    Ismailia
                    3
                    They perforate the nose and ears, and put various ornaments into them.
                    Handbook to the new Gold-fields
                    4
                    Working steadily over the next five minutes, he continued to perforate the ceiling.
                    Storm Front
                    5
                    By 1912, however, pianists would mark or perforate the roll as they performed.
                    The Guardian
                    6
                    In human erythrocytes, malaria parasites perforate their enclosing erythrocyte membrane shortly before egress.
                    Pubmed
                    7
                    Long live the railway, and may it perforate the Alexandra District!'
                    Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
                    8
                    Wasps and other allied insects also perforate for nectar.
                    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892
                    9
                    They hatch their young in holes, which they perforate in decayed trees with their sharp bills.
                    Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
                    10
                    All had ragged edges, while but one had gone deep enough to perforate the coronary band.
                    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
                    11
                    The Craftsman hammer with the rubber perforate grip.
                    Salem’s Lot
                    12
                    I perforate the bottom in the same way and let out the honey, which drips through gradually.
                    The Mason-Bees
                    13
                    They are quite harmless, do not practise tattooing, or perforate their ears and noses in any way.
                    The Naturalist on the River Amazons
                    14
                    Through the lower lip, which they perforate, they wear two or three pins with the points outwards.
                    The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
                    15
                    Even humble-bees do not always discover that it would be advantageous to them to perforate certain flowers.
                    The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingd...
                    16
                    Conclusion: A higher diagnostic accuracy rate is associated with more perforated appendixes.
                    Pubmed
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                    Translations for perforate
                    Perforate through the time