perforate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they perforate | |
| he / she / it perforates | |
| past simple perforated | |
| past participle perforated | |
| -ing form perforating |
- perforate something
to make a hole or holes through something 打孔；穿孔；打眼 The explosion perforated his eardrum. 爆炸震破了他的耳膜。 a perforated line (= a row of small holes in paper, made so that a part can be torn off easily) 齿孔线
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from Latin perforat- ‘pierced through’, from the verb perforare, from per- ‘through’ + forare ‘pierce’.