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Penetrating vs Puncturing - What's the difference?

penetrating | puncturing |

As verbs the difference between penetrating and puncturing

is that penetrating is while puncturing is .

As an adjective penetrating

is able to pierce or penetrate.

As a noun puncturing is

the act by which something is punctured.

penetrating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • able to pierce or penetrate
    • The skunk produces a penetrating odor.
  • demonstrating acute or keen understanding
    • His novel shows a penetrating insight into the criminal mind.

    Verb

    (head)

    • puncturing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is punctured.
  • * 2011 , Philip Norman, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation
    • 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.